The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

Although the need for effective waste management has been recognized for decades, human and environmental health challenges associated with plastic waste are not only growing but also accelerating.

It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

Single-use plastic might just be the most insane act of collective self-harm humanity commits every single day. Each year, the United Nations Environment Programme estimates that we discard a ...

For those of you over a certain age, you may remember this now famous line from the movie, The Graduate, delivered by the character Mr. McGuire to Benjamin Braddock, played by the actor Justin Hoffman ...

Plastics labeled with resin codes between 1 and 7 used to all be eligible for recycling. Now, there's no market for some types of plastic, and nearly a quarter of what gets sent to sorting facilities ...

In the time it takes you to read this sentence — say, four seconds — the world produces nearly 60 metric tons of plastic, almost entirely out of fossil fuels. That’s about 53,000 metric tons an hour, ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

Two people stand in a laboratory in front of a closed fume hood; each is wearing goggles, a lab coat, and gloves and holds a box of nitrile rubber gloves. Evan Bailey and Caroline Gilmer were inspired ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. When I called Wayne DeFeo and told him I was considering ...

California has set a 2032 deadline for plastic producers to make all packaging recyclable or compostable. This is the most ambitious deadline in the U.S., but it faces criticism from ...