HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that's failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to gain state approval to store plastic, workers quickly ...

Plastic waste has long posed a formidable challenge to the global environment, and the Asia-Pacific region—home to over half the world’s population and many of the world’s largest coastal ...

About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever recycled. The city of Houston says it has an innovative new program that can recycle any ...

The expanding open-air pile at Wright Waste Management, 20 miles northwest of downtown Houston, awaits what the city of Houston and corporate partners including ExxonMobil call a new frontier in ...

Texas city seeks to be a national model for ‘advanced’ plastic recycling. But a program that started in 2022 hasn’t yet found its footing. By James Bruggers, Inside Climate NewsSep 2, 2024 ...

OCEAN POLLUTION Southeast Asia has long been a major contributor to land-based plastic waste leaking into the world's oceans, say environmentalists.

Southeast Asia is the source of over half of the world’s ocean plastic, due to inadequate waste management infrastructure in many emerging economies.

Most plastic is a product of oil and gas, so addressing Asia’s plastic pollution problem is not just a question of waste management, but of climate change, too. The largest plastic manufacturers ...

Fossil Fuels Houston’s Plastic Waste, Waiting More Than a Year for ‘Advanced’ Recycling, Piles up at a Business Failed Three Times by Fire Marshal Houston seeks to be a national model for ...

HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that's failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to gain state approval to store plastic, workers quickly ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand began the year with a ban on single-use plastic bags that Bangkok office worker Nicha Singhanoi hoped would cut back the waste that puts her country among the world's ...

Houston seeks to be a national model for plastic recycling. But a program that started in 2022 hasn't yet found its footing.