“The world’s commitment to ending plastic pollution is clear and undeniable,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), when the fifth negotiation session for an ...

Plastic recycling has fallen short. Only about 9% of all plastic is recycled globally, which sounds pretty bad until you compare it with textiles. Only 0.5% of those are recycled. One of the biggest ...

The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10 percent with most new plastic still made from fossil fuels, a new study said Thursday. Researchers from Tsinghua ...

When California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed suit against Exxon Mobil and accused the oil giant of misleading the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling, many of the allegations surrounded ...

So many of us have grown up learning not to throw away plastics - right? -like, that they belong in the recycling bin, not the trash. Well now, California is suing ExxonMobil and saying that that is a ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling to reduction. Bales of sorted plastic for recycling are seen in a warehouse ...

Among the plastic in your house might be an orange-colored hard laundry detergent bottle and a squeezable clear ketchup bottle. Come recycling day, you might put them on the curb in a blue bin or bag, ...

A proposed solution to the plastic pollution crisis, "chemical recycling," is at best unproven and more likely disastrous for the environment. The EPA just removed the only regulatory obstacle to its ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing ExxonMobil, alleging the company misled consumers into believing that recycling was a viable solution for plastic waste. "Exxon Mobil knew that 95% of ...

Recycling plants are amassing millions of tons of plastic bottles. Recycling plants are amassing millions of tons of plastic bottles, the Environmental Protection Agency says, with some becoming part ...