Critics call out plastics industry over "fraud of plastic recycling"

Jan Dell is a former chemical engineer who has spent years telling an inconvenient truth about plast...

Study maps "forever chemical" water contamination hotspots worldwide, including many in U.S.

Sydney —— Dangerous concentrations of long-lingering "forever chemicals" have been found in surface ...

New Starbucks cups reduce plastic and water waste while bettering accessibility to the visually impaired

Starbucks unveiled a new cup lineup that the company says will keep more than 13.5 million pounds of...

There are thousands of tons of plastic floating in the oceans. One group trying to collect it just got a boost.

The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — ...

Experts meet as final global plastic treaty talks near

With months until crunch talks on the world’s first binding treaty on plastic pollution, experts are...

Houston's plastic waste, waiting more than a year for "advanced" recycling, piles up at a business failed 3 times by fire marshal

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LEGO to scale up use of renewable plastics in its bricks, with goal of replacing fossil fuel-based materials by 2032

LEGO announced plans Wednesday to scale up its use of renewable plastics in the production of its si...