Your ‘Widely Recyclable’ Starbucks Cup Is Still Trash
“Starbucks wants consumers to think that the cups are recyclable so that consumers will buy lots of them and feel good about themselves."
Joseph Winters, Grist
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Arizona Rural Grassroots Organizers Take on Industrial Developers, Aided by Urban Allies
By Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder
The Unexpected Beauty and Deep Meaning of Plastic-Waste Art
Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth
How to Help Your Garden (or Even Some Fish) With Your Dried-Out Christmas Tree
By Kiley Price
Alleging Decades of Lies, California Sues ExxonMobil Over Plastic Pollution Crisis
By James Bruggers
Houston’s Plastic Waste, Waiting More Than a Year for ‘Advanced’ Recycling, Piles up at a Business Failed Three Times by Fire Marshal
By James Bruggers
Kraft Heinz Faces Shareholder Vote On Its ‘Deceptive’ Recycling Labels
By James Bruggers
Could ‘Microfactories’ Pave a New Path Forward for Plastic Recycling?
By Wyatt Myskow
Environmental Groups Eye a Potential Win with New York Packaging Bill
By James Bruggers
A Battle Over Plastic Recycling Claims Heats Up in California Over ‘Truth in Labeling’ Law
By James Bruggers
Who Pays for Cleanup When a Solar Project Reaches the End of Its Life?
By Dan Gearino
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 Missing Equations at ExxonMobil’s Advanced Recycling Operation
By James Bruggers
Dumped, Not Recycled? Electronic Tracking Raises Questions About Houston’s Drive to Repurpose a Full Range of Plastics
By James Bruggers
Making Solar Energy as Clean as Can Be Means Fitting Square Panels Into the Circular Economy
By Emma Peterson, Wyatt Myskow
In Youngstown, a Downtown Tire Pyrolysis Plant Is Called a ‘Recipe for Disaster’
By James Bruggers
Experts Study Using Waste Plastic in Roads and More, but Find the Practice Isn’t Ready for Prime Time
By James Bruggers
Q&A: The Truth About Those Plastic Recycling Labels
