Opponents of Louisiana Plastics Plant Sue Over Permit
A permit that will allow a Taiwan-based conglomerate to launch a factory of single-use plastics in Louisiana drew a federal complaint Wednesday from four environmental watchdog groups.
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Massive Plastics Plant Granted Air Quality Permits for Construction in Louisiana
Louisiana granted a series of air permits Tuesday to a massive industrial complex for producing plastics, a move that many in the state lauded for its promise of creating 1,200 permanent jobs while environmentalists oppose it vehemently.
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Scientists to Harness the Sun to Break Down Plastic
Scientists said Wednesday they have come up with an environmentally friendly method that uses artificial sunlight to transform plastic into power-generating chemicals, as countries worldwide battle to reduce waste.
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Environmentalists Demand Stricter Pollution Standards For Plastics Industry
Seeking stricter accountability for the plastics industry, more than 350 public interest groups filed a petition Tuesday with the Environmental Protect Agency demanding higher standards and lower emissions for plastics manufacturers.
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Researchers Close In on Process for Carbon-Neutral Plastics
Scientists have developed a process to convert carbon waste into an important precursor widely used to make plastic products – a breakthrough they say will likely cause a paradigm shift in fossil fuel use, according to a study published Wednesday.
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McDonald’s to Speed Shift Away From Plastic in Europe
Fast food giant McDonald’s is speeding up its move to minimize the use of plastic in its restaurants in Europe, where legislation on single-use items is becoming increasingly restrictive.
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Pacific Bird Sanctuary Ravaged by Plastic and Death
Midway Atoll is a haven for many species of seabirds and home to the largest colony of albatross in the world. It is littered with bird skeletons with plastic protruding from their decomposing bellies.
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EU Countries Need Better Recycling: Report
EU countries need to adopt policies to boost recycling, to help tackle growing waste, particularly from plastic and electronics, according to two reports by the European Environment Agency published Monday.
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Dutch Inventor Shows Device to Clean Plastic From Rivers
A young Dutch inventor is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by moving into rivers, too, using a new floating device to catch garbage before it reaches the seas.
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Coca-Cola Is World’s Major Plastics Polluter
Tens of thousands of pieces of plastic littering the planet come from just a handful of multinational corporations, and Coca-Cola leads the pack, an environmental group said Wednesday.
Read morePlastics Firm to Pay $50M in Bay Pollution Settlement
Nearly every day for four years, members of a Texas environmental group fanned out on their kayaks around a bay collecting plastic pellets that had washed ashore after being discharged from a factory. Their efforts paid off as the plant owner has agreed to pay a $50 million settlement to resolve Clean Water Act litigation.
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Lilly, Thailand’s Greta Thunberg, Wages War on Plastic
Skipping school to glide through a dirty Bangkok canal on a paddleboard, Lilly fishes out rubbish in her mission to clean up Thailand, where the average person uses eight plastic bags every day.
Read moreForeign Trash ‘Like Treasure’ in Indonesia’s Plastics Village
Governments around the world are grappling with how to tackle the scourge of single-use plastic, but for the people of Bangun trash equals cash.
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Plastics Pollution Found in Remote Snows of the Arctic
Scientists discovered just how far reaching human pollution has become when they discovered an “enormous” amount of microplastics in the Arctic snow, according to new research released Wednesday.
Read moreTrump to Promote Turning Natural Gas Into Plastics in Pa.
Trying to hold support in the manufacturing towns that helped him win the White House in 2016, President Donald Trump is showcasing growing efforts to capitalize on western Pennsylvania’s natural gas deposits by turning gas into plastics.
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Tiny Magnetic Coils Used to Remove Microplastics From Water
A study released Wednesday in the scientific journal Matter offers a biotechnological strategy for purifying microplastics in water systems before the contaminants can enter bodies of water and threaten the health of marine and human life.
Read moreEU Court Upholds Toxic Designation for Chemical BPA
A trade group for the plastics industry failed to persuade the European General Court on Thursday that the industrial chemical BPA should not be classified as toxic.
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Humans Are Drowning the World in Plastic
Now found in humans’ bloodstreams and deep in oceans, plastic’s proliferation is growing exponentially: Yearly global production is expected to exceed 1 billion tons by 2050. But there are glimmers of change within the deluge. A movement calling on mankind to wean itself off plastic bags turns 10 on Wednesday.
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Scientists on Madeira See New ‘Plasticrust’ Sea Pollution
Researchers say they may have identified a new kind of plastic pollution in the sea and they’re calling it “plasticrust.”
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