People in the U.S. use some four to six tubes of toothpaste per person each year, with billions of plastic tubes ending up in ...

- 17 April 2024 - The Alliance to End Plastic Waste has published the first two in a series of 'Solution Model' playbooks, to improve the understanding of the many stakeholders across the plastic ...

Researchers developed a catalyst-free recycling method that uses only water and oxygen to break down durable plastics such as polyethylene and polypropylene. Microscopic droplets generate reactive ...

Rows of black and white plastic weed mats are giving vegetable seedlings their best start in life. But disposing of them has ...

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, ...

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Negotiators from dozens of countries are in Busan, South Korea, trying to hammer out a global treaty to cut down on plastic pollution. It's their last chance before an end-of-year deadline to agree on ...

Efforts to combat plastic waste have gotten derailed by the divide over chemical recycling.