According to Greenpeace, only 9% of the world's plastic gets recycled. Instead, plastic waste continues to collect in our ...

When Nestle SA tweaked its plastic packaging goals in 2022, few noticed. The shift in language on the website of the world’s largest food maker pledged to mostly use plastic “designed for” recycling ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. Credit - Hulton Archive/Epics—Getty Images Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may ...

Before you toss that food take-out container into the recycling bin with good intentions, you should know a surprising amount ...

Many disposable objects are made of black plastic, which has so far proven to be very hard to recycle. US scientists have devised a new method of recycling black polystyrene, however, simply using ...

(CN) — A federal judge on Monday denied ExxonMobil’s request to throw out a nuisance claim brought by a group of environmental organizations who say the oil behemoth knowingly misled the public about ...

March 25, 2026 / For decades, the economics of plastics have been deceptively simple: virgin resin-derived from oil and ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your climate impact. But recycling plastic will not address the plastic pollution ...