Countries are currently negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution and make plastics safer and more sustainable.

4 trillion bottles The plastic bottles sold worldwide since 2009 would tower above New York’s ... Drinking bottles are one of many types of plastic pollution currently causing environmental ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Titled "Circular Claims Fall Flat Again," the study found that of 51 million tons of plastic waste generated by U.S. households in 2021, only 2.4 million tons were recycled, or around five percent.

Both types mainly released four types of plastic: polyolefins, polyterephthalates, polyacrylamides and polystyrenes. These are the same materials found in many plastic consumer goods and ...

On average, she says, a plastic toothbrush is made up of four types of co-moulded polymers that cannot be recycled in the same stream. "Recycling is always about economics," she explains.

Eastman Chemical, a company with $9.2 billion in annual revenues based in Kingsport, Tenn., introduced the durable plastic called Tritan Renew four years ago, telling manufacturers that it was ...