The plastic pollution crisis has become one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the modern age. With millions of tons of plastic waste entering the world’s oceans each year, the damage to ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating. In 2024, only 9% of plastic waste was recycled globally, while 91% of plastic waste is believed to not be recycled. Even worse, the ...

Many large consumer product companies are falling short of the plastics recycling targets they set several years ago. Observers say this failure has contributed to hard times for the companies that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Successful recycling requires some care. Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images Every week, millions of Americans toss ...

Ridwell, a third-party recycling company, is offering a new service for hard-to-recycle plastics in Sonoma County and the city of Napa. The service includes a mail-in program where users send ...

Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this week Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used ...