Recycled jewellery doesn’t contribute to this damage ... in addition to lab-grown diamonds and plastic-free packaging. Any off-cuts produced from castings in the workshops go back into the ...

California dumps more than 12,000 tons of plastic into landfills every day — enough to fill 219 Olympic-size swimming pools, according to CalRecycle, the state’s recycling and waste management agency.

The vast majority of plastic that people use, and in many cases put into blue recycling bins, is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic ...

Plastic companies are using an even more convoluted version of this accounting technique in order to make it seem that their products have more recycled content than they really do. Mondelez ...

As fashion churns out more ‘sustainable’ goods, why is so much made from plastic? “A bathing suit [made] out of recycled plastic doesn’t excite me. It’s really not going to solve the ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell ...

Plastics are among the biggest challenges. Only about 9% of the plastic generated in the U.S. actually gets recycled, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Some plastic is incinerated ...

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 ...

Used in everything from water bottles to medical devices to building materials to clothes; plastic is a given in our daily lives. Yet, only about 9 per cent of plastic is recycled — the rest ends up ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are winners of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a plastic that can be infinitely recycled. Can you ...