The rules require all plastic packaging to be recyclable or compostable by 2032. Nobody — not the advocates, not the producers — thinks that's going to happen the way the law is written.

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Single-use plastic is ubiquitous, but alternatives are growing. It should be simple for an environment reporter to live for a ...

Do take five minutes to watch this video from the experts Sonoco's Raleigh sorting facility. They sort through the most common items people have questions about. Here are some recycling dos and donts, ...

A new UB study finds that people in the United States generate similar amounts of plastic packaging waste regardless of income, education level or where they live. Yet wealthier and more ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A new University at Buffalo study finds that people in the United States generate similar amounts of plastic packaging waste regardless of income, education level or where they live.

Plastic bottles and other trash pile up along the bank of the San Gabriel River in Seal Beach, Calif. Credit: Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images When former top ...

Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg Curtzwiler/Iowa State University. Researchers from Iowa State’s Polymer and ...

A new book by the journalist Beth Gardiner argues that oil companies are upping production of the material as a safeguard against falling revenue. By Zoë Schlanger Zoë Schlanger is an environmental ...