Plastic and plastic recycling has been a major global issue for decades, but scientists have found a lot of intriguing ways ...

Thank you for carefully rinsing, sorting, and recycling your plastic containers — but plastic is trash and trying to recycle it is futile, Greenpeace said in a bombshell October 2022 report.

They weren’t. It was all trash—pieces of broken shipping containers, abandoned fishing gear, and of course, plastic shopping bags. Kathleen Dohan, a scientist and the president of Earth and ...