The Shocking Truth About Global Plastic Recycling Rates The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating.

SAN ANTONIO – Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that banned the use of paper straws. Whether you use paper or plastic products — what happens to them when you throw ...

A squat, light-colored building in Tigard, Oregon, was supposed to be part of a game-changing new solution for the global plastics industry. Called Regenyx, this recycling facility took in polystyrene ...

A recent study that recommended toxic chemicals in black plastic products be immediately thrown away included a math error that significantly overstated the risks of ...

Plastics are bad for human health and the environment. This isn’t news to most of us. However, it’s easy to gloss over the details of why plastics are so devastating because they are pervasive in our ...

The outlook is grim, but a new report lays out a path to nearly eradicate plastic packaging pollution within the next 15 ...

Fossil fuel-based plastics take hundreds, if not thousands of years to biodegrade, leading to an urgent demand for biodegradable plastic alternatives. Plastics may be a villain in Earth's very own TV ...

The world has created more than 8 billion tons of plastic, and 91% of it likely goes unrecycled. We could even be ingesting an estimated credit card’s worth of plastic every week—and our marine life ...

Some of it is obvious. Your soda bottle. Your Tupperware container. But plastic waste goes far beyond bottles and bags. Each year we create roughly 440 million tons of it — equivalent to about 15,000 ...

Every single dental care product you use is made from plastic — no, that’s not an exaggeration. Toothbrushes have plastic handles and bristles. Floss thread is essentially a plastic string packed in a ...

Whether it involves personal care, grooming, beauty or just general privacy, the bathroom is a space that’s varied in its use, but we tend to overlook the amount of single-use plastic and paper ...

An Interior Department order will end the sale of single-use plastic products at national parks and on other public lands in the United States by 2032. By Christine Hauser Sales of plastic water ...