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Energy giant promised to turn 1m tonnes of plastic waste into oil each year, but now says goal is unfeasible

A leading environmentalist says one of the goals of New York's proposed Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act is to end individually wrapped single slices of cheese. "We have to do something about the plastic crisis," said Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator. "These…

Walmart previously stopped giving out single-use paper and plastic carryout bags at the register at stores in New York, Connecticut and Colorado - but not all customers are impressed with the alternative

The plastics industry says there is way to help solve the crisis of plastic waste plaguing the planet’s oceans, beaches and lands— recycle it, chemically

The plastics industry says there is a way to help solve solution to the crisis of plastic waste plaguing the ocean, beaches and lands across the globe

And yet infinitely recyclable plastics are on the horizon.

New York is the latest, and largest, state to consider charging product-makers to dispose of their packaging. But lawmakers are clashing over how much to involve industry in creating a new system.

PHILADELPHIA — Only 5% to 6% of the 46 million tons of plastic waste generated annually in the U.S. gets recycled, a big dip from the last estimate of nearly 9% just a few years ago, according to a new study by two environmental groups focused on creating awareness around…

The state's attorney general argues fossil fuel companies have long known recycling is a "myth"