US Plastics Pact Releases Anticipated 'Problematic' Plastics List
Waste Dive by Megan Quinn | January 25, 2022 | PVC, PS and PFAS-containing packaging are among the items targeted for phase-out by 2025. Some see the list as a positive circular economy driver, but others think it's counterproductive.
Drowning In Plastic
Deccan Herald | January 23, 2022 | We move further into 2022 with the hope that the past two years of pandemic devastation are slowly giving way to global economic recovery.
Environmentalists Push To Revisit New York's 'Bottle Bill'
Spectrum News 1 | January 19, 2022 | Environmentalists are pushing to modernize the New York State Returnable Container Act, also known as the “Bottle Bill,” as it nears 40 years since its enactment.
Enck: Test For "Forever Chemicals"
Investigative Post by Jim Heaney | January 19, 2022 | A former top EPA official is calling for the monitoring of members of Buffalo’s Burmese community because of their consumption of fish contaminated with so-called “forever chemicals.”
Energy Department Slammed For Funding 'False' Plastic Solutions
Grist by Joseph Winters | January 14, 2022 | Advocates say the agency’s efforts to develop chemical recycling are a “waste of tax dollars.”
Tackling The Integrated Challenge Of Plastic Pollution And Climate Change
Mongabay by Devayani Khare | January 11, 2022 | With many reports highlighting the need to tackle plastic pollution at a global level, it becomes imperative to find integrated solutions to address plastic pollution and climate change.
The Dangerous Persistence Of Plastic, And What NYC Needs To Do About It
Gotham Gazette by Karl Palmquist | January 11, 2022 | Microplastics are in the air we breathe; they are in the water we drink; they are in our bodies, prodding our cells — unwelcome invaders that bypass detection. Regardless of what ad men told us in the mid-20th century, there is nothing convenient about plastic.
What We Can Do About All Our Plastic
NPR’s 1A | January 10, 2022 | What is the impact of plastic on our environment? And what can corporations and individuals do about it?
The War On Plastics, 2022: A Change Of Climate
GreenBiz | January 10, 2022 | The climate crisis represents a new front in the war on plastics. Are you ready?
Groups urge NPS to ban sales of plastic water bottles
Advocacy groups are urging the Biden administration to revive a ban on the sale of plastic water bottles at national parks.
Chemical recycling bill sets stage for industry’s battle with environmentalists
New technology employs a thermal process to convert industrial, commercial, agricultural or domestic plastic waste into additives for other products.
Turning plastic into fuel doesn’t solve the plastic problem | Editorial
A New Jersey bill aims to advance chemical recycling, giving petrochemical companies a free pass on New Jersey’s environmental laws.
Sierra Club sues Coca-Cola, plastic water bottlers
The Sierra Club today sued companies that bottle brands like Dasani, Poland Spring and Niagara, alleging their bottles are falsely advertised as “100% recyclable.”
How a Retired Louisiana Teacher Bagged the “Green Nobel Prize”
A retired special education teacher from Louisiana who led a successful grassroots campaign to stop construction of a toxic plastics plant in America’s Cancer Alley has won the 2021 Goldman prize for environmental defenders.
Don't Believe the 'Store Drop-Off' Label When It Comes to Plastic Packaging
Walmart and Greenpeace are now embroiled in a legal battle over mislabeled recyclable plastic packaging.
Takeaway food and drink litter dominates ocean plastic, study shows
Just 10 plastic products make up 75% of all items and scientists say the pollution must be stopped at source.
Plastic bag ban isn't turning out as lawmakers envisioned
Democratic lawmakers in Delaware are complaining that grocery stores and other retailers are exploiting a "loophole" in a new law prohibiting the use of certain plastic bags when the businesses are actually doing exactly what the law requires.
Who’s paying the human costs of plastic pollution?
Latinx and low-income communities are suffering from the effects of plastics manufacturing.
Biden proposes higher EPA funding, including $10M in recycling grants from Save Our Seas 2.0
The Biden administration is calling for the U.S. EPA's largest overall budget in history, at $11.2 billion, including $10 million in funding for a new Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) pilot grant program as a result of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act.
Why this Louisiana plastics plant has become a national lightning rod for environmentalists
Some critics and outside observers say Formosa has become an early test case in a battle over the expansion of plastics production in North America, which some environmentalists see as the next front in the battle with 'Big Oil.'