Chemical recycling — an umbrella term used to describe processes that break plastic waste down into molecular building blocks with high heat or chemicals and convert them into new products…
When oil and gas companies first launched their campaign to promote recycling to the American public, they pitched the process as a viable and sustainable solution to the plastic pollution…
Electronic Tracking Raises Questions About Houston’s Drive to Repurpose a Full Range of Plastics Revelations by a watchdog group reinforce doubts about chemical recycling, a technology promoted by the city…
As petrochemical companies continue to inundate the world with cheap plastic products and packaging — much of which is designed to be used once and then thrown away — they’ve…
Ahead of International Plastics Treaty Meeting in November, Groups Call for Reducing Plastic Production, Not More Toxic Recycling Today, Beyond Plastics and IPEN (the International Pollutants Elimination Network) — two…
Study finds plastic toys from 10 countries have high levels of toxic chlorinated paraffins High levels of chemicals in several toys could qualify them as hazardous waste A study released…
This is a brief summary of the happenings and outcomes of the Second Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution meeting in Paris, France, as well as notes…
IPEN Co-Chair Pamela Miller spoke to Voice of Islam radio on the Plastics Treaty, eliminating chemicals from plastics, and threats to Indigenous people in the Arctic from plastics and chemicals.…
After a rocky start to a week of negotiations, around 170 countries agreed to develop a first draft by November of what could become the first global treaty to curb…
As more science emerges on threats from toxic chemicals in plastics, Plastics Treaty talks enter a new phase centered on eliminating chemicals throughout the plastics life cycle Paris – As…
