Now, new research, published Friday in Science Advances, reexamines the U.S.’s role as a plastic consumer and concludes that the country has much more work to do at home to manage its waste.

There is a need to make sure that a robust collection system is in place to ensure that plastic waste is collected and ...

More than two dozen lawmakers signed a letter urging the governor and CalRecycle to toss regulations drafted to implement ...

Abstract: This paper presents a successful implementation of the Six Sigma methodology for analyzing the effluents of plastic manufacturing industries. The proposed Complex Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy ...

An estimated 8 million metric tons (MMT) of plastic waste enters the world's ocean each year - the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck of plastic waste into the ocean every minute. Plastic waste is ...

For many people, "plastic pollution" calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic ...

Since the ordinance was put in place in 2013, they’ve seen a 75 percent reduction in the number of plastic bags in collected litter, and they still plan to be a zero-waste city by 2040.

Key Takeaways - What Is Happening? On March 7, 2025, Governor Newsom declined to adopt CalRecycle’s initial draft regulations ...