São Paulo – Plastic, used in every aspect of contemporary human life, from supermarket bags to car parts, is one of the products that, when discarded, holds little value in the recycling chain. Once ...

In 2019, Coca-Cola was named the world's worst plastic polluter, and despite pledges to increase recycled plastic use, progress has been slow. This latest partnership with UNDP has the potential to ...

The Consumer Council discovered that almost half of the retailers they checked did not follow Hong Kong’s plastic bag levy. It is telling shops to use less packaging for their items and give ...

The Seadrift plant produces 4 billion pounds of materials each year, including plastic used for food and pharmaceutical packaging and chemicals used in products like antifreeze, soaps, and paint.

Earth Island has, over time, filed a series of lawsuits in D.C. Superior Court alleging misconduct by brand owners and their use of plastic packaging. The nonprofit, while announcing the latest ...

There, he accepted a position as a street sweeper. To earn extra money, he began collecting polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, plastic bottles—the kind used for water and sodas—that he found along ...

75% of all plastic used has some sort of a brick-and-mortar structure. It's made of really thin alternating layers: hard, soft, hard, soft, and so on. We've known since the 1950s that the soft ...

More research is needed to grow our understanding of how plastics of all sizes and types might come to pollute our foods. But individuals can also mitigate their exposure now by reducing their use of ...