Reducing plastic use this year should be on everyone’s radar, although it won’t be easy. According to the United Nations, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Have you ever wondered just how much plastic you encounter in your daily life? For this story, we had a family of five hold on to every piece of plastic they touched for one week ...

If you order takeout in Los Angeles and your meal comes with a compostable fork made from PLA—a common bio-based plastic—you’re not supposed to toss the utensil in your curbside compost bin. The city ...

There is no shortage of news about plastic’s ubiquity or its harms. Microplastics are in clouds, drinking water, playgrounds and our blood. Marine mammals are entangled in and ingest plastic at ...

Plastic pollution is a severe problem around the globe as it continues to harm our environment and daily lives. But what are our city and state doing to help fix this global issue? Globally, the world ...

Plastic pollution is a growing problem that's impacting ecosystems globally. The presence of so much plastic has also caused microplastics — plastic particles no more than one-fifth of an inch large — ...

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As a result, plastics must be carefully sorted into relatively pure streams, which pushes up recycling costs and reduces efficiency. Mechanical recycling — the dominant method worldwide — involves ...

Plastic pollution is accumulating worldwide, on land and in the oceans. According to one widely cited estimate, by 2025, 100 million to 250 million metric tons of plastic waste could enter the ocean ...

Last year, the U.S. exported more than 950 million tons of plastic waste meant for recycling and a significant portion of that ended up in Southeast Asia. The region has been inundated with plastic ...