CHANG: It's full of potential. Well, OK, if plastic recycling is a total myth, what's happening to all those piles of plastic? SULLIVAN: So the latest numbers show that less than 5% of all the ...

How did we get here? For decades, we’ve been misled about plastic. Those blue recycling bins and chasing-arrow symbols gave us the illusion that the plastic we use is being recycled and repurposed.

The lawsuit, seeking ‘multiple billions of dollars,’ opens a new front in the legal battles with oil and gas companies over climate and environmental issues. transcript Rob Bonta, the attorney ...

Mr. Clapp is a journalist and the author of “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,” from which this essay is adapted. In the closing years of the Cold War, something strange started to ...

In an interview, Bonta said plastic pollution was “fueled by the myth of recycling, and the leader among them in perpetuating that myth is Exxon Mobil.” Exxon Mobil responded sharply ...