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Plastics

INC-4 chairman Luis Vayas Valdivieso speaks during the fourth session of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution on April 23 in Ottawa, Canada. Credit: Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images

Headed Toward the Finish Line, Plastics Treaty Delegates ‘Work is Far From Over’

By James Bruggers

The site of the formerly proposed Encina chemical recycling plant for plastic waste in Point Township, Penn. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

A Giant Plastics Chemical Recycling Plant Planned for Pennsylvania Died After Two Years. What Happened?

By James Bruggers

U.N. delegates follow the day's proceedings during the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee's third meeting to formulate an international legally binding plastics treaty in Nairobi, Kenya on Nov. 14, 2023. Credit: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

As Plastic Treaty Delegates Head to Canada, A Plea From the Arctic: Don’t Forget Vulnerable Indigenous Peoples

By James Bruggers

A California environmental advocate who owns stock in Kraft Heinz has put forward a shareholder proposal for the company to study the claims made on recycling labels for a variety of products, including Velveeta Shells and Cheese bowls. Credit: Dorann Weber/Getty Images

Kraft Heinz Faces Shareholder Vote On Its ‘Deceptive’ Recycling Labels

By James Bruggers

Fred Stone’s Arundel dairy farm was one of more than 60 Maine farms that had to be shut down due to PFAS contamination. Credit: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

PFAS Is an Almost Impossible Problem to Tackle—and It’s Probably in Your Food

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, a $10 billion plastics plant built by ExxonMobil and SABIC, started operations this year on 1,300 acres of previously undeveloped land in San Patricio County, across the bay from Corpus Christi, Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Gulf Coast Petrochemical Buildout Draws Billions in Tax Breaks Despite Pollution Violations

By Dylan Baddour

Nathan Harrington, who leads Ward 8 Woods Conservancy, carries a broken tire visible from the road to his truck. Credit: Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer

DC’s Tire-Dumping Epidemic

Kayla Benjamin, The Washington Informer via Report for America

A Presidente Supermarket employee bags groceries in Miami, Fla. A proposed statewide measure in Florida would block cities from banning single-use plastic items. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Q&A: The Latest in the Battle Over Plastic Bag Bans

By Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

Formosa Plastic Corp's complex on Lavaca Bay in Point Comfort, Texas, pictured on June 7, 2023. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

New Lake Will Fuel Petrochemical Expansion on Texas Coast

By Dylan Baddour

Attendees of the microfactory launch event inspect plastic pellets produced during the recycling process at the Goodwill Retail Operations Center in Tempe, Ariz. on Feb. 6. Credit: ASU Knowledge Enterprise/Andy DeLisle

Could ‘Microfactories’ Pave a New Path Forward for Plastic Recycling?

By Wyatt Myskow

Elizabeth Goldman, an IVF patient, shows a photo of her child during a roundtable with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Feb. 27 in Birmingham, Ala. Photo credit: Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate News

Alabama Supreme Court IVF Ruling Renews Focus on Plastics, Chemical Exposure and Infertility

By James Bruggers, Lee Hedgepeth

A boat transporting recycling waste sails on the Upper New York Bay between Staten Island and Manhattan on Dec 29, 2023. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

Environmental Groups Eye a Potential Win with New York Packaging Bill

By James Bruggers

Bisphenols, used in aluminum can linings, are synthetic estrogens that mess with fat distribution in the body. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Q&A: Everyday Plastics Are Making Us Sick—and Costing Us $250 Billion a Year in Healthcare

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Bales of plastic bottles at a recycling center in San Jose, Calif. Credit: Aric Crabb/Digital First Media/Bay Area News via Getty Images

A Battle Over Plastic Recycling Claims Heats Up in California Over ‘Truth in Labeling’ Law

By James Bruggers

Mobile city workers shovel pounds of Mardi Gras beads into the back of a truck. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

During Mardi Gras, Tons of Fun Comes With Tons of Toxic Beads

By Lee Hedgepeth

A liter of bottled water may contain nearly a quarter million pieces of the smallest particles of plastic. Credit: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images

Diet for a Sick Planet: Studies Find More Plastic in Our Food and Bottled Water

By James Bruggers

The proposed site of SOBE Thermal Energy Systems' tire pyrolysis chemical plant in Youngstown, Ohio. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

A Plant Proposed in Youngstown, Ohio, Would Have Turned Tons of Tires Into Synthetic Gas. Local Officials Said Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

The site of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment on Feb. 17, 2023. The train derailment happened on Feb. 3 in which 38 cars derailed, including 11 containing hazardous materials, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate for several days. Credit: US Environmental Protection Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

From Fracked Gas in Pennsylvania to Toxic Waste in Texas, Tracking Vinyl Chloride Production in the U.S.

By Kiley Bense

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