Month: July 2024

“The recycling logo still gives anything it touches — whether feasible to recycle or not — a green aura. Surveys show that a majority of Americans believe recycling is one of the most effective ways they can fight climate change, when experts say it's unlikely to make much of a difference in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. That's a credit to the iconic triangle, which has had 50 years to...

INC4 News Chemical companies, oil-and-gas incumbents and startups around the world are touting plans for new recycling facilities, promising to turn old bottles and bags into usable material. But policymakers are questioning whether some of these methods, broadly termed chemical or advanced recycling, should be considered recycling at all. In June, during last-minute negotiations on a New York...

 Plastics are a combination of carbon and chemicals — most of the which are petrochemicals, substances made from fossil fuels such as oil and gas. Different chemicals added to plastics provide a wide variety of properties to create the many kinds of plastic materials sold today More than 13,000 chemicals are used in plastics of which more than 3,000 have been identified as toxic (often called...

The International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) is calling on policymakers to address "loopholes" for plastic waste shipments under the Basel Convention. Speaking for the environmental group this week at a side event of the 14th meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention (OEWG-14), technical and policy advisor Lee Bell noted that significant volumes of plastic waste...