The petrochemical industry has spent the past few years hard at work lobbying for state-level legislation to promote “chemical recycling,” a controversial process that critics say isn’t really ...
For the U.K., plastic waste incineration presents a major stumbling block in attempts to achieve net-zero emissions. According to an open letter compiled by a coalition of campaigners, an increase in ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. During the second round of negotiations for a global plastics treaty in Paris this ...
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The plan sounded like a magic bullet from the future to solve one of the world’s most vexing environmental waste ...
The CGF's Coalition of Action on Plastic Waste has published an independent scientific study that it says demonstates that chemical recycling could reduce the climate impact of plastic compared with ...
The following letter, signed by representatives of 106 organizations from the Great Lakes and across the U.S., states their opposition to a $182 million conditional loan guarantee to develop ...
Karin Kvale is affiliated with the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty. She received a research grant from the Marsden Fund. Andrew Weaver received a research grant from Canada's ...
Global plastic production, use and disposal patterns are responsible for significant harm to human health, the environment and the economy, and are causing deep societal injustices, particularly for ...
Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began, medical first responders and health ...
Garbage incineration plant. Waste incinerator plant with smoking smokestack. The problem of environmental pollution by factories. Increasing waste incineration capacity in European Union’s countries ...
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