More than 8 billion tons of plastic waste clog the planet. If stacked within Chicago’s Millennium Park, plastic dumped into the environment since the middle of the last century would rise beyond the ...

Judith Enck, whose new book "The Problem with Plastic" confronts one of the defining environmental issues of our time. Enck brings decades of experience - from her work at the EPA to her leadership of ...

Busan, South Korea — Several non-profit groups that operate U.S. curbside recycling programs have a simple message to diplomats trying to write a global plastics treaty: Be skeptical about seeing ...

You may have heard that recycling plastic grocery bags can jam up machinery, but what might not be as well known is that ...

Future Bio, a Berkeley, California-based startup, is working to commercialize a new plastic that can be easily broken down into its basic components, reducing the need for petroleum products and ...

Plastics have many beneficial uses but the accompanying waste has led to severe environmental and health consequences.

In her 2025 book, “The Problem With Plastic,” Judith Enck reports the following staggering statistics: Two garbage truckloads of plastic enter our oceans every single minute; 330 billion pounds of ...

Cincinnati — Greg Janson recycles plastics. That's what he does. But this doesn't mean he likes the conditions he sees every day in the industry. And the challenges facing the business call for a new ...

There are ducks, geese, and now a couple of new guests on the downtown duck ponds — plastic coyotes. The city has been trying any number of ways to discourage Canada geese from hanging out on the ...

When pickleball exploded in recent years as America’s favorite sport, the pastime came with collateral damage — plastic neon-colored balls piling up in landfills. More than 500 million pickleballs are ...

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