Discover the challenges of global waste management as this video explores the dramatic increase in population and its impact ...

A worker transports plastic waste slated for a compressor in Bentong, Malaysia, in June 2024 before the waste is recycled and sold. (Mohd Rasfan / AFP/Getty Images) Malaysia has banned plastic waste ...

Each year, over 350 million tons of plastic are produced, much of it ending up in landfills or the ocean. A major contributor is polyethylene terephthalate (PET), used in everything from soda bottles ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

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Recycling plants are amassing millions of tons of plastic bottles. Recycling plants are amassing millions of tons of plastic bottles, the Environmental Protection Agency says, with some becoming part ...

Nearly ninety percent of U.S. states are failing to adequately address plastic pollution, underscoring evidence of a system failure in a new report by the Ocean Conservancy. The U.S. generates 40 ...

Malaysia says it is no longer accepting plastic waste from a handful of nations, including the U.S., that didn’t ratify the Basel Convention. Malaysia emerged as a major destination for waste from the ...