Annual plastic waste set to surge from 130 Mt to 280 Mt. Plastic emissions rise 58%, rivaling 1bn gasoline-powered cars’ output. Health risks from microplastics increase, affecting human organs and ...

A new report has published research regarding the efficacy of plastic waste management. As the report is titled “The Fraud of Plastic Recycling,” you can imagine what it found. Harrisburg taxpayers ...

In an annual report to its stakeholders, Singapore-based group says it helped divert and add value to nearly 128,000 metric tons of discarded plastic through 2023. Among cities hosting Alliance to End ...

When the Center for Climate Integrity released its report about plastic recycling, one might have expected the environmentalist non-profit to encourage the practice. Anyone raised in the late-20th and ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Last week, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith reported on how the City of Houston manages recycling. One question from that report was about the validity of plastic recycling.

People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic ...

A study published today in the weekly journal Science projects that at present rates the world's plastic waste will nearly double by 2050, imperiling waterways and seas already under threat. But ...

New reports tracking the efforts to reduce plastic waste show some companies are making slow but steady progress to cut harmful plastics and increase reuse and recycling, but the world is still "off ...

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. HOUSTON—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that’s failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to ...