Now, new research, published Friday in Science Advances, reexamines the U.S.’s role as a plastic consumer and concludes that the country has much more work to do at home to manage its waste.

EAST MOLINE, Ill. — Every day, plastic shipping pallets roll down the assembly line at Green Current Solutions at its East Moline facility. Tammy Becker started the operation in 2019 with her ...

For years, the plastics industry’s narrative about recycling has been falling apart. Research and media investigations have revealed that it doesn’t make economic sense and that petrochemical ...

In the U.S. alone, about 4 to 5 billion plastic pill bottles are thrown away each year. That’s enough plastic to circle the Earth multiple times. While they might seem harmless, these bottles ...

"Avoid plastics as much as you can. Reducing your use of ultraprocessed foods can reduce the levels of the chemical exposures you come in contact with," Trasande said. "Never put plastic ...

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BTMPS is shorthand for an industrial substance that's added to plastics, and it's being found in the illicit fentanyl supply in Philadelphia. "It's changing extremely rapidly, like day-to-day ...

In recent years, heart-rending images of dead or dying sea mammals and fish, their stomachs stuffed with plastic, have shocked citizens around the globe. Reports indicate that the amount of ...

Impact Plastics managers gave employees enough time to escape rising floodwaters from Hurricane Helene on Sept. 27, according to the investigative report released April 2 by the Tennessee ...

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling to reduction. Bales of sorted plastic for recycling are seen in a ...

So, in August 2023, after three years of planning and consulting, a new company led by Becker, Green Current Solutions, made its first industrial pallet using recycled plastics pulled out of rivers.