Coca-cola, PepsiCo and nestlé named top plastic polluters for third consecutive year
The coca-cola company, PepsiCo and nestlé have been ranked as the world’s top plastic polluters for the 3rd consecutive year according to the report ‘branded...
Plastic is the enemy of the environment and fighting climate change
It is estimated that the harm plastic production pushes onto the environment costs at least $40 billion a year, including polluted air, water and land.
Our plastic planet
It’s always a challenge to find good news on the climate and environment beat. And we all desperately need a little more of the upbeat...
More Talk and No Action on Chemical Recycling
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has long been a bête noire of Treehugger, ever since they tried to get the LEED green building certification system...
Big Plastic Spends Millions of Dollars to Lie to You About Recycling
This launched the $50-million-a-year campaign to rebrand plastic. The 1980s and 1990s featured heartwarming, sweet videos with kids talking about how plastic wasn’t trash —...
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
Rogue, like most recycling companies, had been sending plastic trash to China, but when China shut its doors two years ago, Leebrick scoured the U.S....
Why Bioplastics Will Not Solve the World’s Plastics Problem
Bioplastics are being touted by industry marketers as the solution to plastics pollution. But the idea that bottles and packaging made of plant-based material can...
Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic.
Confronting a climate crisis that threatens the fossil fuel industry, oil companies are racing to make more plastic. But they face two problems: Many markets...