Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Currently, most plastic products are derived from freshly extracted fossil fuels, ...

To encourage more recycling, the U.K. taxes single-use plastic products containing less than 30% recycled material. But aside from a manufacturer's word, there isn't an easy way to verify this ...

It’s pretty wild how much plastic waste we generate, right? It feels like it’s everywhere. But what if we could actually use ...

It was a decade ago when California became the first state in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags, ushering in a wave of anti-plastic legislation from coast to coast. But in the years after ...

Businesses must integrate recycled plastic into their supply chains. Many governments are introducing regulations to mandate its use in products and packaging, and consumers worldwide are demanding ...

With the rise of recycled content mandates and extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs, the market for recycled plastics is growing rapidly. Research from Fortune Business Insights projects ...

Americans support recycling. We do too. But although some materials can be effectively recycled and safely made from recycled content, plastics cannot. Plastic recycling does not work and will never ...

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (KTIV) - The city of South Sioux City, Nebraska will be the first city in Nebraska to install a street using material from recycled plastic materials. “It’s going to be a way ...

Bethanie Carney Almroth receives funding from the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development FORMAS (grant number 2021-00913) and The Carl Tryggers Foundation (grant number 21:1234). Eric ...