A recent investigation by Inside Climate News and CBS has uncovered a shocking truth about the city’s recycling program. An environmental activist, Brandy Deason, secretly placed a GPS tracker inContinue Reading
The fashion industry is a major contributor to global waste, and recycling textiles effectively has proven challenging. But a new chemical processing technique offers a glimmer of hope. Researchers haveContinue Reading
Plastic waste is accumulating without proper recycling. But where conventional recycling has failed, a different sort of recycling called Chemical recycling is seen as a more effective solution for handlingContinue Reading
We’ve known for a long time that so-called “chemical recycling” is a bogus answer since converting plastic into gasoline is not recycling. Plastic manufacturers prefer to talk about “chemical recycling”Continue Reading
Every year, more than 380 million tonnes of plastic is produced worldwide. The way we normally recycle plastics is a downward spiral of waste and degraded materials, but there isContinue Reading
An alarming new study found dozens of “mystery chemicals” inside the bodies of pregnant women, leaving scientists both concerned and confused. Of the 109 unusual, human-made chemicals identified in theContinue Reading
The fossil fuel industry has touted chemical recycling as a solution to the plastic crisis, amid an overwhelming plastic pollution and an exponential rise in plastic production. However, a newContinue Reading
