A sharp increase in greenhouse gas emissions from the petrochemical industry — which includes plastic, fertilizer and pharmaceutical companies — threatens to erode climate benefits from reductions in ...

"Plastics are the new coal," declares Beyond Plastics. "Pollution from the plastics industry is a major force behind the heating of the planet," reports The Hill. The Natural Resources Defense Council ...

Plastics play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report from McKinsey & Co. The report, "Climate impact of plastics," compares plastics and alternative ...

When it comes to a cleaner environment, there’s a lot of work to be done. This includes finding ways to manage substances produced by humans that further contribute to climate change and the damaging ...

Substituting plastics with alternative materials is likely to result in increased GHG emissions, according to research from the University of Sheffield. The study by Dr. Fanran Meng from Sheffield's ...

There are few more villainous products in the eyes of hardcore environmentalists than plastics. Plastics are difficult to recycle, they complain. The production of plastics emits lots of carbon ...

Scientists recently figured out that expected surges in plastics manufacturing may cause enough greenhouse gas emissions to cancel out gains made through closures of most of the country’s coal-fired ...

Missouri lawmakers are pushing to ease state regulations on so-called “advanced recycling,” a process proponents say diverts hard-to-recycle plastics from landfills and makes them into new products.

An estimated 17.6 billion pounds of plastic leak into the marine environment from land-based sources every year. This is roughly equivalent to dumping a garbage truck full of plastic into the oceans ...