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Topic: Plastics

Executive director of Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research uses a stereo scope to examine a sediment sample to identify microplastics within a sample in Long Beach on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Microplastics in brains are accumulating

Matthew Rozsa
An aerial view shows plastic waste at a landfill on the outskirts of Bengaluru on November 23, 2024. (IDREES MOHAMMED/AFP via Getty Images)

Plastic treaty talks collapse

Matthew Rozsa
Frying pan with cauliflower (Getty Images/Crispin la valiente)

Your favorite spatula could kill you

Ashlie D. Stevens
Colorful Plastic Bottle Caps 655465824 (Getty Images/Deanna Kelly)

Plastics industry’s desires for Trump

Lisa Song - ProPublica
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Worker Observing Processing of Waste at Recycling Facility (Getty Images/AzmanJaka)

EPA rejects plastics industry’s math

Lisa Song - ProPublica
Engineer at recycling center (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

When “recyclable” isn't truly recyclable

Lisa Song - ProPublica
Plastic bottles and other single-use plastic waste are seen floating in Khlong Toey canal. (Matt Hunt/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Delusion of advanced plastic recycling

Lisa Song - ProPublica
Biodegradable trash paper and plastic spread out (Getty Images/Tatiana Maksimova)

How to get companies to use reusables

Joseph Winters - Grist
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Green campaigners organized by the "BreakFreeFromPlastic movement" march through the streets in Nairobi, Kenya, Nov. 11, 2023. (Han Xu/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Plastic messing with our hormones

Joseph Winters - Grist
Plastic waste (Getty Images/Anna Efetova)

Plastic chemicals and preterm births

Joseph Winters - Grist
Colorful Plastic Bottle Caps 655465824 (Getty Images/Deanna Kelly)

Chemical recycling a dangerous deception

Joseph Winters - Grist
A gull picks up a piece of trash that washed up along the bank of the San Gabriel River just a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean in Seal Beach on Tuesday morning, December 13, 2022. (Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Democrats unveil plan for plastics

Joseph Winters - Grist
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The Washington Works DuPont plant in Parkersburg, WV on October 28, 2015. (Maddie McGarvey/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Industry knew about the perils of PFAS

Tracey J. Woodruff, Nadia Gaber - Undark
(Mint Images/Getty Images)

More sustainable waste management

Michaela Barnett, Leidy Klotz, Patrick I. Hancock, Shahzeen Attari - The Conversation
Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

England bans single-use foodware

Joseph Winters - Grist
Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

Calif. wants proof plastic is recyclable

Joseph Winters - Grist
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Plastic Bottles (Getty Images)

Can this law solve the plastic crisis?

Hollie Stephens - Food52
(Rocky Luten / Food52)

Your cleaning routine just got cleaner

Laura Fenton - Food52
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

CA investigates plastics campaign

Joseph Winters - Grist
Plastic contaminations in a glass of water (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Tire particles are destroying lakes

Matthew Rozsa
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(Rocky Luten / Food52)

7 eco-friendly packaging ideas

Caroline Mullen - Food52
Microplastic | Stomache Pain (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are microplastics giving us IBS?

Matthew Rozsa
(Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Can supermarkets reduce plastic waste?

Jodi Helmer - FoodPrint
Plastic pellets and sperm count (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Plastics are making us infertile

Matthew Rozsa
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