NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 8, 2026 / The plastics market is entering a new phase-one where recycled ...

California's long anticipated single-use plastic law is now in effect. Environmentalists and anti-waste activists are suing, ...

As the scale and extent of the effects from plastic pollution trigger regulation, customer concern, media controversy, and changes in market dynamics, companies will have to better understand how they ...

Many people have a drawer in their kitchen crammed with ketchup packets, plastic cutlery, chopsticks, or single-serving ...

The latest stories from our Planet or Plastic? series—a multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste ...

Conflict in Iran has raised the cost of oil and downstream products like virgin plastic. That's a boon for recycled plastic, ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are so small and lightweight they can be swept into the air, where they may be helping to heat ...

Many plastic products are designed to be used only once, yet the material itself lasts for years. But a new strategy is ...

Americans, on average, toss out about three quarters of a pound of plastic each day, according to researchers at Oxford University. Most of that trash winds up in a landfill. As someone who loves ...

Whoever ends up in the White House after next week’s presidential election will face a suite of crises related to the unchecked production of plastics: toxic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a sunlight-powered process that uses old ...

This initiative will help divert plastic materials that are not collected as part of curbside recycling and will repurpose ...