Plastic use keeps rising rapidly while recycling struggles. Incineration grows steadily, but it may harm more than help.

Last August, I learned of a new study that revealed that the human brains studied were nearly 0.5% plastic by weight. Let ...

Globally, only 14 per cent of the plastic we use is recycled – but some countries achieve higher rates and new technologies ...

International Recycling Group (IRG) has announced that they will cancel a planned plastic waste processing facility in Erie, ...

The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10% with most new plastic still made from ...

Much plastic waste is soiled and composed of several different layers, making it too complex for the usual recycling method.

Dow, a US-based chemical company, is stepping up efforts to slow rising global temperatures by improving handling of plastic ...

Cutting down on the production of virgin plastics is essential, campaigners say, in the face of such low reuse rates. View on ...

India faces significant plastic pollution, with greenwashing misleading consumers about sustainability. While government ...

New Zealand sends most of its recycling to places like Indonesia and Malaysia – where communities are living with the ...