Former EPA official Judith Enck explains why plastic pollution is a production problem—and how policy, not recycling, can ...
A Michigan State plastic packaging research team is keeping its work close to the family. That's because the experts — supported by $1.7 million in government funding — have discovered that related ...
Most of us don’t think much about what happens to our trash. We bag it, put it out for collection and assume the job is done. But what if that isn’t always the case? Plastic waste that does not get ...
Future Bio, a Berkeley, California-based startup, is working to commercialize a new plastic that can be easily broken down into its basic components, reducing the need for petroleum products and ...
On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll former EPA regional administratorJudith Enck discusses her new book, co-authored with Adam Mahoney, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save ...
The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...
Within 15 years, a garbage truck's worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second. On the current trajectory, the consequences of plastic pollution are ...