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“The Problem with Plastic: How to Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late” was just released by The New Press on December 2, 2025. Learn more and order your copy today!
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Plastics are complicated—feedstocks, chemical additives, chemical reactions, recycling facilities, technical considerations, health impacts, new technologies, marketing claims, and more. Our Science Director, Trisha Vaidyanathan Ph.D.’s monthly “Ask a Scientist” column explores these complexities in plain English.
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You may have heard that you should not heat food up in plastic in your microwave. Why is it a bad idea to heat plastics? Find out!
Plastics are made from a combination of fossil fuels (or another feedstock) and a mixture of more than 16,000 chemical additives. Learn more about what these chemicals are, why they’re added, and what their impacts are.
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Plastics Recycling Is A Big, Fat, LIE
We created this super short claymation video in response to Coca-Cola’s outrageous animated greenwashing video using Bill Nye the Science Guy to try to convince people that plastics recycling is the answer. Reduce, reuse and refill are the only real solutions to the growing plastic pollution crisis.
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O’Connell to Lead Organization’s Grassroots Efforts to Block Chemical Recycling Facilities in Various States.
A new report from Beyond Plastics reveals that in 2025, over 100 businesses — including Amazon, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, and Coca-Cola — lobbied to block the New York Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (S1464 / A1749), outnumbering supporters’ lobbyists by a margin of 4 to 1. Titled “Follow the Money: The David vs. Goliath Battle to Pass the New York Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act," the report found that 107 registered businesses lobbied to defeat the packaging-reduction bill, and only 23 registered organizations lobbied to pass it.
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On December 2, The New Press will release “The Problem With Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late” by Judith Enck and Beyond Plastics with Adam Mahoney. The book, which is currently available for pre-order, provides a powerful investigation into plastic’s impact on human health and the environment, a searing indictment of the plastics industry that created this mess, and a playbook for how we can fight back.