Los Angeles Times

Plastic bag bans seem to work, at least when it comes to shoreline pollution

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...
University of California

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...
New Scientist

Plastic vaporising process could recycle bags and bottles indefinitely

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...
Scientific American

Here’s How Plastic Bag Bans Are Working

For one in three U.S. residents, single-use plastic bags are no longer a cheap and easy ubiquity—and beaches, riverbanks and lakeshores are benefitting. That’s according to research published on June ...

Plastic bags can’t go in household recycling bins – here’s what to do instead, and the consequence is bigger than the first headline suggests

That plastic grocery bag sitting under the sink may look harmless. It is light, useful, and easy to forget. But once it lands ...