If only the story had ended there. Despite that legislative success, the poorer nations of the world have never stopped being ...

Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for the plastics industry.

The composition of materials is becoming more and more diverse. There is not just one type of plastic, instead, different ...

Alexander Clapp’s important and courageous book explores the environmental damage unleashed by the west’s offloading of its trash ...

A 2016 behavioral economics study found that when consumers think their waste might be recycled, they worry less about the amount of trash they generate and produce more of it.

Considering that only one-tenth of all plastic waste is recycled, new technologies that can help tackle this growing problem are urgently required. Catalytic recycling techniques, such as ...