SANTA BARBARA, Calif (June 20, 2024) – Plastic is everywhere – more than 10 million metric tons of plastics enter the ocean each year, and the United States is ...

Within 15 years, a garbage truck's worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second.

The good news about plastic pollution is that public awareness has become widespread of the gravity and harm of pollution by this now-ubiquitous manmade material. As a result, most people want to see ...

To reduce trash, some states want to charge companies whose packaging isn’t recyclable. Nashville is growing – and so are its piles of trash. The Middle Point Landfill, in nearby Murfreesboro, ...

Genetically engineered bacteria can not only degrade plastic waste, but they can convert it into valuable industrial chemicals. There are still unknowns -- for example, how to do this at scale and how ...

The Shocking Truth About Global Plastic Recycling Rates The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating.

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, Calif (June 30, 2023) – More than 10 million metric tons of plastics enter ...

The plastics industry says there is a way to help solve the crisis of plastic waste plaguing the planet's oceans, beaches and lands— recycle it, chemically. Chemical recycling typically uses heat or ...

The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently floating in it, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There's a dirty little secret lurking in your laundry. A single load of laundry sends 15 million microfibers through our waterways. Microfibers are tiny little strands of plastic that ...

The Vitalising Opportunities in Circular Economy for Sustainable Solutions in Lake Tanganyika (VOICES) Project in Mpulungu ...

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