“The world’s commitment to ending plastic pollution is clear and undeniable,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), when the fifth negotiation session for an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic is processed at Exxon Mobil's chemical recycling plant in Baytown, Texas, in October 2023. (Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

A study by Iowa State University researchers found that using industrial soap to clean plastic in recycling transferred ...

California has filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil, alleging that the company has spent decades misleading the public about the efficacy of plastic recycling. The lawsuit alleges that ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, ...