plastics

EPA Launches Recycling Initiative With $100+ Million in Grants

EPA Launches Recycling Initiative With $100+ Million in Grants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced grants of more than $100 million to expand the country’s recycling and waste management infrastructure. It is the largest investment in recycling by the EPA in three decades. Funding for the grants will come from President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda. Under the new funding opportunity, […]

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    How Plastics Threaten Human Health From ‘Cradle to Grave’

    How Plastics Threaten Human Health From ‘Cradle to Grave’

    Plastics harm human health at all stages of the life cycle, a first-of-its-kind study has found.  The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health, published in the Annals of Global Health March 21, revealed the extent to which plastics harm those that interact with them, from the unique lung diseases suffered by coal miners to […]

    <strong>Latex Chemical Spill Contaminates Delaware River, Supplier of More Than Half of Philadelphia’s Water</strong>

    Latex Chemical Spill Contaminates Delaware River, Supplier of More Than Half of Philadelphia’s Water

    On Friday, thousands of gallons of a water-soluble acrylic latex polymer solution were released into a tributary of the Delaware River, which supplies more than half of Philadelphia’s drinking water. The release of the chemicals into Otter Creek began late Friday night from the Trinseo Altuglas plant in Bristol, PA, according to a statement from […]

    Fossil Fuels 101: Everything You Need to Know

    Fossil Fuels 101: Everything You Need to Know

    Quick Key Facts What Are Fossil Fuels? Fossil fuels are fuels that literally come from fossils. Tens of millions of years ago, plants took energy from the sun and used it to turn carbon dioxide and water into carbon and hydrogen via photosynthesis. Animals ate those plants and stored the same elements in their bodies. […]

    Plastic Consumption Could Nearly Double by 2050 Without Ambitious UN Treaty

    Plastic Consumption Could Nearly Double by 2050 Without Ambitious UN Treaty

    Negotiators working on a legally binding United Nations treaty to end plastic pollution will need to be as ambitious as possible with the final document.  That’s the main takeaway from a new report from Back to Blue — a collaboration between Economist Impact and the Nippon Foundation — released Monday. The report modeled what would […]

    Forever Chemicals Contaminate More than 17,000 Sites in Europe and UK, New Map Reveals

    Forever Chemicals Contaminate More than 17,000 Sites in Europe and UK, New Map Reveals

    There are more than 17,000 sites across Europe that have been contaminated with toxic forever chemicals and another more than 21,000 sites that have likely been polluted. That’s one main finding from “The Forever Pollution Project,” a month’s-long collaboration between 18 European newsrooms to investigate and map the extent of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pollution across […]