"We are drilling for oil to produce plastic that we burn or bury a few months later. It is an economic and ecological absurdity." These were the words of French President Emmanuel Macron to the ...

New Jersey must never go back to using 4.4 billion plastic bags each year. That bears repeating, just in case there is any lingering nostalgia for the manmade scourge that threatens to choke the ...

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How to make the black plastic on your car look new again. Shutterstock // Kevin Khoo All plastics eventually fade when exposed to the environment, but if your car’s trim is starting to look gray and ...

California and a group of environmental nonprofits sued ExxonMobil on Monday, accusing the oil giant of intentionally misleading the public about how much plastic waste can actually be recycled, ...

We estimate that in 2016, the world generated 2.01bn tonnes of household waste per year. Waste generation is set to increase by more than 70 per cent, to 3.40bn tonnes, by 2050, more than double the ...

CLEVELAND — You've probably seen the green plastic-looking things on top of concrete barriers on the highway. They're called plastic glare shields -- and some of us here have noticed, they're looking ...

The common material is a growing source of emissions, but a combination of technology and policy could help clean it up. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate ...