In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It’s now about 400 million tons – an increase of nearly 20,000%. As a material, it has seemingly limitless potential. Plastic is ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first ...

ProPublica finds advanced recycling techniques are not matching mechanical recycling’s rate of converting discarded plastic into new plastic. For genuine circularity, investments in mechanical ...

America generates 40 million tons of plastic waste a year — and it can't be recycled.

Nova Chemicals, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, has entered into an agreement with London-based Plastic Energy to explore the feasibility of developing a pyrolysis-driven advanced recycling ...

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