People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic ...

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Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

Recycling is not a myth — it’s a movement that’s keeping materials in use, creating jobs and protecting Wisconsin’s ...

6. The 'Seedling' indicates the packaging it is stamped on is industrially compostable. Compostable plastics which carry this ...

A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

According to Towards Chemical and Materials, the global chemical recycling of plastics market volume was valued at 1.37 ...

For years, companies have been trying to offset their greenhouse gas emissions with carbon credits. Now, they want to do the same thing for their plastic pollution. A growing number of companies are ...

BRUSSELS — Soda bottles labeled as “made with recycled plastic” could soon have more virgin plastic than you might think, ...