Only 5 to 6% of plastic waste produced in the U.S. is actually recycled. A new report accuses the plastics industry of a decades-long campaign to "mislead" the public about the viability of recycling.

Plastic chemicals cost the U.S. health care system $249 billion in 2018 alone, according to a January study in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.

How to reduce the plastic in your kitchen in 7 easy steps Here's how you can make the switch from plastic containers, cookware, and utensils that may contain chemical additives or microplastics ...

Salt can be packed with plastic. A 2023 study found coarse Himalayan pink salt mined from the ground had the most microplastics, followed by black salt and marine salt. Sugar is also “an ...

The world produces an average of 430 million metric tons of plastic each year. The United States alone produces tens of millions of tons of plastic waste annually. Yet on average, only about 5 to ...

How Single Use Plastics Are Hurting Our Oceans and Warming Our Planet November 1, 2023 Plastic is everywhere. It is in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. Plastic is not ...

Some plastic bag bans work better than others The researchers collected information on 611 plastic bag policies nationwide. Of those, the most common was complete bans, which made up almost 60% of ...

Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. They identified 484 marine invertebrate organisms on ...

A total of 95% of the plastic used in packaging is disposed of after one use, a loss to the economy of up to $120 billion annually, concludes a report by McKinsey. (Just over a quarter of all ...