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.) ...

Most plastic can’t be recycled—and even most of what can still ends up as garbage. Some 171 trillion pieces of plastic are estimated to be floating in the world’s oceans. Plastic has been found inside ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New ...