The need to expand recycling capacity in places like the U.S. is becoming acute now that China—which has imported 45 percent of all plastic waste intended for recycling since 1992—has closed its doors ...

Tires have one of the highest recovery rates among U.S. waste materials, underscoring progress and the limits of what ...

The world’s first microfiber recycling facility has just opened in Cornwall, England. Run by the Cleaner Seas Group, the new Microfibre Filter Hub, Microplastic Recycling Lab, and Return and Recycle ...

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The microplastics crisis will get worse in the next decade and a half even relative to the overall plastics emergency. There are seven main known sources of microplastics: tires, paint, recycling, ...

CEPA Gallery has collaborated with artist Nicole Chochrek to launch a new public “art bin” project that will teach people the importance of recycling plastics. As microplastics in the environment ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Now, an alarming new study has found that even when plastic makes it to a recycling ...

The plastics industry has long hyped recycling, even though it is well aware that it’s been a failure. Worldwide, only 9 percent of plastic waste actually gets recycled. In the United States, the rate ...

Today, more than half of plastic waste ends up in landfills, and less than one-tenth is recycled globally. The U.S. generates ...

Experts in the fight against plastic pollution are meeting this week to develop an international network of high-tech laboratories that can monitor marine microplastics, and examine other progress ...

Microplastic concentrations measured in human frontal cortex tissue roughly doubled the levels found just eight years earlier ...

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