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How Americans are driving the move from plastic to plant-based packaging and products

SmartLifeco reports that a SmartLifeco survey shows Americans, especially Gen Z, are shifting to plant-based products, ...
KSAT

What happens when paper or plastic products are thrown away?

SAN ANTONIO – Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that banned the use of paper straws. Whether you use paper or plastic products — what happens to them when you throw ...

Is It Plastic?

a list of common materials to test your knowledge of plastic, and to marvel at the scale of the plastic pollution crisis ...
Reuters

Consumers sue Exxon, Dow, others over plastic recycling claims

Four residents of Missouri, Kansas, California and Florida filed the lawsuit on Monday in federal court in Missouri on behalf of a proposed class of millions of purchasers of plastic products ...
CNN

The plastics industry says this technology could help banish pollution. It’s ‘an illusion,’ critics say

A squat, light-colored building in Tigard, Oregon, was supposed to be part of a game-changing new solution for the global plastics industry. Called Regenyx, this recycling facility took in polystyrene ...
Los Angeles Times

Your black plastic kitchen utensils aren’t so toxic after all. But you should still toss them, group says

A recent study that recommended toxic chemicals in black plastic products be immediately thrown away included a math error that significantly overstated the risks of ...
Business Wire

Pexco LLC Acquires Wisconsin Plastic Products, Inc.

Pexco LLC expands custom profile extrusion capabilities with acquisition of Wisconsin Plastic Products, Inc. ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pexco LLC, a leading North American plastics solutions ...
ProPublica

Biden EPA Rejects Plastics Industry’s Fuzzy Math That Misleads Customers About Recycled Content

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first ever ...
PBS

Plastic pollution treaty talks deadlocked as negotiations draw to a close

GENEVA (AP) — Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution are drawing to a close Thursday, as nations remain deadlocked over whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production ...
Los Angeles Times

Your cool black kitchenware could be slowly poisoning you, study says. Here’s what to do

Go to your kitchen, grab your black spatula and throw it in the trash. Immediately. That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic utensil ...

Plastic is the hidden cost of the war in Iran

Experts are warning that consumers will see a rise in prices for a variety of plastic consumer goods due to the war with Iran.
Healthline

Household Plastics Raise Cardiovascular Disease Risk: 4 Ways to Limit Exposure

Share on Pinterest New research linked microplastics found in common household products to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and death. Carlo Franco/Getty Images A new study says plastics found ...