“Plastic leakage from the apparel industry is completely dominated by synthetic clothes ... “What we’re seeing is that in countries like the United States, we have a ‘fast fashion’ culture where we ...

In his book American Plastic: A Cultural History, historian Jeffrey Meikle writes that the ever-expanding proliferation of consumer goods created an inflationary culture, and that plastic became ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

In the tingi culture, consumers carry reusable containers to purchase their basic commodities. Businesses capitalized on this ...

As a result of “selfie culture,” users developed “Snapchat dysmorphia” and sought out procedures to copy the filtered images of themselves. The number of participants considering ...