The Shocking Truth About Global Plastic Recycling Rates The statistics around plastic recycling are absolutely devastating.

"Recycling doesn’t sustainably prevent plastic waste from ending up in the environment," argues Judith Enck.

A new report from REUSE Foundation reveals a vibrant industry driven by entrepreneurs determined to stop plastic waste at source.

"[The industry] has spent millions of dollars advertising, telling us, 'don't worry about all the plastic you're generating,'" said Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the Environmental ...

In her new book “The Problem with Plastic,” a former EPA official looks at the costs of plastic overproduction and how we can ...

The outlook is grim, but a new report lays out a path to nearly eradicate plastic packaging pollution within the next 15 ...

In the late 1940s, following wartime-driven innovation, the mass production of inexpensive plastics revolutionized American ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Daniela De Lorenzo is a Oslo-based reporter covering sustainability. Designing products to be treated through sustainable, ...

You might get eco-guilt when you toss a plastic bottle into the recycling bin. Will the material from the container really be used to make something new? The answer to that question is unclear.

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging ...

YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP via Getty Images The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers ...