Though plastics are all around (and even inside) us, their ubiquity isn’t always obvious. “It’s not transparent what is plastic and what isn’t anymore,” notes Kathleen Hetrick, the sustainable ...

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Source: Marek Pavlik / Unsplash Microplastics have become an unavoidable part of our daily life, embedded in packaging and clothing, and found in our oceans, in the air we breathe, and in the water we ...

Mr. Franklin-Wallis is the author of “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future” and an editor at GQ. This essay is part of a series on environmental health. What ...

How did plastic become so ubiquitous? The answer lies deep beneath the surface of the earth. In her new book Plastic Inc., ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each year, the world produces about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste – more than the combined weight of all the people on Earth ...

For the average person, trying to avoid plastics can feel overwhelming—and maybe pointless. Our writer asked two experts how they navigate our plastic-filled world. While research into the health ...

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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 ...