Here we go again. Greenpeace released a report on Sept. 16, 2020, “Deception by the Numbers,” which examines 52 projects touted by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) as “chemical” or “advanced” ...

A new report by the environmental nonprofit Greenpeace released on Monday finds that the vast majority of plastic waste produced by U.S. households is not recycled. Lisa Ramsden, a senior plastics ...

Most plastics packaging in the United States does not meet the federal government's legal definition of recyclable, and none of it meets the tougher criteria put forward by the Ellen MacArthur ...

A new report from Greenpeace says the plastics industry is overstating the potential of chemical recycling to address U.S. waste challenges and questions whether some of the technology should be ...

Plastics and recycling organizations say recycling is essential to plastics’ circularity while acknowledging that the recycling rate must improve. Plastics and recycling organizations say recycling is ...

Even Greenpeace has finally acknowledged the truth: recycling plastic makes no sense. This has been obvious for decades to anyone who crunched the numbers, but the fantasy of recycling plastic proved ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – How many plastic cans, bottles and containers have you rinsed out, put in your recycling bin and placed at the curb over these last decades of New York City recycling? Thousands?

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...