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When you pick up your dog’s poop, you do everyone a favor, but if you want to do the environment a favor as well you’ll need to use the right poop bag. A regular old plastic bag can pollute oceans, ...

Bin with compost items and suggestions on what to do with paper and compostable bags, Union Square Farmer's Market, New York City. (Photo by: Joan Slatkin/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. In the United States, one of the best-selling dog waste bags on Amazon is compostable. So far, so green.

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You probably think about what and how much you throw away – but do you ever stop to think about what you throw it into? If ...

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Regulatory questions cloud the segment’s future, as do concerns about feedstocks, material capabilities and compostability ...

While the group is concerned about contamination from synthetic polymers broadly, it’s open to evaluating individual ...