The environmental, social, economic and health risks of plastics need to be assessed alongside other environmental stressors, like climate change, ecosystem degradation and resource use.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Steve Helber OTTAWA — Canada is looking to target American steel, ceramics and plastics with retaliatory tariffs in response to an escalating trade dispute with the incoming ...

Then I took another step back and then I saw it all." From Catapult and the Curb Market: Asian-inspired food hall coming to Lakeland airport Seeing smoke and flames start to come through the ...

A Lakeland father has been arrested more than a month after a car crash that killed his daughter and seriously injured his son. Kody Wills, 30, has been charged with DUI manslaughter after toxicology ...

Lakeland Antique Mall will be moving about two miles north to 4985 U.S. 98 North. The business opened at its current space at 3530 U.S. 98 N., just south of Lakeland Square mall, in 2017. It will ...

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However, according to Dr. Leonarde Transande, director of environmental pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine, there are ways to reduce the influx of plastics into our bodies. It starts with avoiding ...

LAKELAND, Fla. - A Lakeland woman is accused of leaving four children alone in a vehicle while she drank at a lounge in Winter Haven, according to deputies. The Polk County Sheriff's Office said they ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says containers and packaging materials from shopping account for about 28% of municipal waste sent to landfills in the U.S. The New Jersey bill seeks to move ...

Haines City, samples ranged from 0 - 1.04 mg/L Lakeland, samples ranged from 0.62 to 0.66 mg/L Lake Alfred, samples ranged from 0.89 to 1.35 mg/L Plant City, just outside of Polk, also adds ...