A persistent claim shared by high-profile sources such as the United Nations, (archived) (archived) World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (archived) says ...
A new analysis released by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) claims if just 50 percent of plastics in the municipal solid waste stream were redirected from landfills to recycling facilities, the ...
Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These five graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and ...