HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Last week, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith reported on how the City of Houston manages recycling. One question from that report was about the validity of plastic recycling.

It has always perplexed me that single-use plastic constitutes about 40% of global plastic production, yet conversations ...

In the form of bottles, tires, packaging and piping, millions of tons of plastic waste are dumped every year in the world's waterways, often ending up in the oceans. And their amount could almost ...

The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more. Much of that waste — equivalent to about ...

Despite the challenge of the rapid accumulation of waste plastics, age-old landfilling, and incineration remain the most prevalent disposal methods. One preference over the other is essentially ...

The latest stories from our Planet or Plastic? series—a multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste ...

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TOPSHOT - A worker walks in front of packed recyclable plastic bottles at La Sylvia recycling center in Barva, province of Heredia, Costa Rica on June 20, 2018. Costa Rica discards 564 tons of plastic ...

A new study links increased plastic waste imports to measurable increases in PM2.5 near waste disposal sites in Indonesia.

Most of us grew up sorting our trash with the quiet confidence that the plastic we set out on the curb would find a second ...

Spread the love“`html In a significant move that has reverberated across the nation, environmental groups have initiated a legal challenge against California’s ambitious efforts to regulate plastic ...