Grist

Last year, I resolved to avoid plastic. Here’s why nobody can do it alone.

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 ...
Grist

Yes, disposable masks are made of plastic. And that’s a problem.

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 ...
Newsweek

Plastic Isn’t Going Away on Its Own. Here’s How to Fix the Problem | Opinion

"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 ...
Wall Street Journal

A Plastic Bag Ban to Fix California’s Bag Ban?

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 ...
Civil Eats

Op-Ed: Food Industry Giants Must Fix Their Plastic Pollution

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 ...
Gizmodo

Bacteria and the Sun Can Destroy Ocean Plastic—but Is It the Fix We Need?

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 ...
MIT Technology Review

Plastic is a climate change problem. There are ways to fix it.

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 ...