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Canadian activist and artist, Benjamin von Wong is pictured in front of his 30-foot monument themed 'turn off the plastics tap' created using plastic waste from Nairobi's largest slum, Kibera, standing outside the venue of the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in Nairobi on Feb. 22, 2022. Credit: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

UN Agency Provides Path to 80 Percent Reduction in Plastic Waste. Recycling Alone Won’t Cut It

By James Bruggers
Cubes of sorted compressed plastic bottles are seen at the recycling center at the Sile Integrated Waste Facility Center on March 12, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey. Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Who Said Recycling Was Green? It Makes Microplastics By the Ton

By James Bruggers
Workers display polypropylene nonwoven raw materials on the production line in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, on Jan. 31, 2020. Credit: Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Once Hailed as a Solution to the Global Plastics Scourge, PureCycle May Be Teetering

By James Bruggers
A tractor moves a pile of recyclables at the San Francisco Recycling Center April 22, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Passed a Landmark Law About Plastic Pollution. Why Are Some Environmentalists Still Concerned?

By James Bruggers
Children play in piles of plastic waste collected for recycling in Makassar, Indonesia, in February 2022. Credit: Andri Saputra / AFP via Getty Images.

Biden Could Score a Climate Victory in a Single Word: Plastics

By James Bruggers
Close-up of a photovoltaic solar energy panel with reflection of the sun. Credit: Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Recycling Solar Panels Is a Big Challenge, but Here’s Some Recent Progress

By Dan Gearino
A Li-Cycle employee oversees lithium-ion batteries on a conveyor belt at the company’s plant near Rochester, New York. Photo courtesy of Li-Cycle.

Inside Clean Energy: Here Come the Battery Recyclers

By Dan Gearino
Plastic and other debris floats underwater in the Red Sea off Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Credit: Andrey Nekrasov / Barcroft Media via Getty Images.

A Commonsense Proposal to Deal With Plastics Pollution: Stop Making So Much Plastic

By James Bruggers
Workers sort recycling material at the Waste Management Material Recovery Facility in Elkridge, Maryland, June 28, 2018. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Includes Money for Recycling, But the Debate Over Plastics Rages On

By James Bruggers

Baltimore Aspires to ‘Zero Waste’ But Recycles Only a Tiny Fraction of its Residential Plastic

By Agya K. Aning

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