Christina Cilento is an associate policy fellow at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. She was a 2021 fellow with the Clean Energy Leadership Institute and previously worked on sustainable ...
Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...
W. Aaron Vandiver is a writer, attorney, and wildlife conservationist. He is the author of the novel Under a Poacher’s Moon, released on February 1, 2022. An estimated 1.6 billion disposable masks ...
Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters California is known for its ban-first-ask-questions-later ...
"We are drilling for oil to produce plastic that we burn or bury a few months later. It is an economic and ecological absurdity." These were the words of French President Emmanuel Macron to the ...
Plastic has allowed many food industry giants to become the massive entities they are today. For example, Coca-Cola generates 3 million tons of plastic packaging a year; PepsiCo has been found to use ...
The common material is a growing source of emissions, but a combination of technology and policy could help clean it up. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate ...
A pair of studies examines ways to break down plastic, but there may be risks in trying to amplify these natural processes. Reading time 4 minutes It’s overwhelming to think about how polluted our ...