Dear EarthTalk: What are some examples of ways food and drink producers are fighting the ever-growing torrent of plastic waste they have helped create? -- Stacy Y., Raleigh, NC As more people become ...

Plastic pollution could double its harm to human health in the coming decades if current production trends continue, ...

Plastic waste is shifting from environmental burden to a strategic resource as advanced materials turn industrial waste into ...

As plastic waste piles up worldwide, researchers are uncovering troubling ways it's being reused, with consequences that ...

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The study will review domestic and international examples and will identify opportunities for repurposing plastics in asphalt, other transportation infrastructure, and in infrastructure outside the ...

Companies and other entities are buying “plastic credits” allowing them to offset every ton of plastic they make with an equivalent amount of plastic waste collected and taken out of the environment ...

For years, companies have been trying to offset their greenhouse gas emissions with carbon credits. Now, they want to do the same thing for their plastic pollution. A growing number of companies are ...

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For those of you over a certain age, you may remember this now famous line from the movie, The Graduate, delivered by the character Mr. McGuire to Benjamin Braddock, played by the actor Justin Hoffman ...