Then-President Joe Biden had vowed in July of 2024 to ‘phase out’ plastics in federal food service, with the end of ...

when plastic production was roughly a twentieth of what it is today. In hindsight, those birds seem like the proverbial canaries in a coal mine. The photographer freed this stork from a plastic ...

Yet the oil industry plans to increase plastic production 40 percent over the next decade. Fueled by an oversupply of fracked gas, plastics plants are popping up across the nation to turn fossil fuels ...

So I wanted to make my own tools so I could use recycled plastic locally.” Typical plastic production, like injection molding, uses very large and expensive machines — so expensive that most ...

As global plastic production has ramped up in the last 20 years, so too has the concentration of these shredded, fossil fuel-derived polymers in human tissue samples. The findings are "pretty ...

(Photo by ANDER GILLENEA / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANDER GILLENEA/AFP via Getty Images) When people ... the accelerating exponential production of plastic, and chemically simplify the ...

Plastic production and consumption is out of control. We are being force-fed more plastic than we need and in a way that makes it impossible to responsibly manage. To this point, plastic producers ...

Yet the oil industry plans to increase plastic production 40 percent over the next decade. Fueled by an oversupply of fracked gas, plastics plants are popping up across the nation to turn fossil fuels ...