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NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 9, 2026 / For decades, plastic economics were built around one assumption: ...

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 10, 2026 / For decades, the economics of plastics followed a familiar ...

Every year, millions of plastic bottles end up on streets, in rivers, and across open fields in communities that never had a ...

Why recycling falls short: Despite decades of campaigns, most plastics are still landfilled, burned, or pollute oceans due to ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

For years, recycled plastic claims have been shrouded in secrecy, difficult to verify, and often challenged as misleading.

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Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year, I became ...

Petrochemical companies pitched chemical recycling as a solution to the plastic waste crisis. And the City of Houston ...

As the crisis in the Middle East continues, much of the public focus has been on fuel prices and the cost of living. But there’s another oil-related product that often gets overlooked: plastic. Most ...