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How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
By: Laura Sullivan | NPR
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An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.
Trump Seizes On Soggy Paper Straws As Campaign Issue: ‘Make Straws Great Again’
By: Jessica Taylor | NPR
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The president’s reelection campaign is selling reusable and recycled straws in its 2020 online store, because, it says, “Liberal paper straws don’t work.”
Replacing Plastic: Can Bacteria Help Us Break The Habit?
By: Christopher Joyce | NPR
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Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a “natural” plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them. But the process is still in the early days.
Microplastics Have Invaded The Deep Ocean — And The Food Chain
By: Christopher Joyce | NPR
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Giant gyres of plastic in the ocean grab headlines, but it’s the tiny bits of plastic that scare scientists. And they’ve made their way everywhere, a new study finds – including our seafood.
As Ohio Valley Ponders Plastics Growth, Report Warns Of Threat to Climate
By: Brittany Patterson | Ohio Valley ReSource
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As a new plastics industry emerges in the Ohio Valley, a report by environmental groups warns that the expansion of plastics threatens the world’s ability to keep climate change at bay. The report released Wednesday by the Center for International Environmental Law, Environmental Integrity Project, FracTracker Alliance, and others used publicly available emissions data and original research… Read More