Plastics Industry

Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.

This presentation deck presents Avantium's progress in developing and commercializing a new, fully plant-based plastic called PEF. The presentation deck highlights the key advantages of PEF over traditional fossil-based plastics, including its enhanced stiffness, longer shelf life, and improved recyclability. It emphasizes the company's journey from laboratory research in 2006 to the official opening of […]

Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.

In the lawsuit, the state's attorney general says ExxonMobil misled consumers into believing that recycling was a viable solution for plastic waste, though it knew otherwise.

The UN General Assembly will vote Thursday on establishing an annual day of remembrance for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, despite furious opposition from Bosnian Serbs and Serbia.The resolution written by Germany and Rwanda -- countries synonymous with 20th century genocides -- would make July 11 In...

A United Nations official said negotiators have a "clear path to landing an ambitious deal" on plastic pollution. But environmentalists say the plastic industry is undermining an effective agreement.

Airbus has consistently gotten three things right: the profile of the people at the top, a focus on employees, and the willingness to take bold bets.

The world produces an average of 430 million metric tons of plastic each year. The United States alone produces tens of millions of tons of plastic waste annually. Yet on average, only about 5 to 6 percent of plastic in the U.S. is recycled. NPR correspondent Michael Copley joins Ali Rogin to discuss a new report on the plastic industry's tactics to push recycling and avoid regulation.

A massive new dataset highlights more than 4,200 plastic chemicals linked to health and environmental risks. But scientists say there are still large gaps in the scientific understanding of plastic ingredients

New documents show how they promoted it anyway.

In the 19th century, the market for ivory products increased to an alarming point. This high demand led to the search for artificial substitutes, but ivory properties were nearly impossible to replicate. The most important substitutes came from Alexander Parkes and John Wesley Hyatt, inventors of the first artificial plastics: Parkesine and celluloid.

Groups connected to the fossil fuel industry are trying to shape an international treaty to cut plastic pollution. And oil- and gas-producing nations are at the negotiating table.

Most U.S. chemical recycling facilities turn plastics into fuel to be burned.

A new report says a 75 percent cut in plastics is needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

A look at the polymer plastics race in the emerging markets. The petrochemical market is projected to grow from $584 billion in 2022 to $916.88 by 2030.

The organization behind the study said it highlights "the need for legally binding agreements" to hold companies to account "for the entire life of the things they make."

The train that derailed in Ohio last month was carrying vinyl chloride, used to make PVC plastics — which we need to use less.

After the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, how do you know if a bomb train is coming to your town? It's complicated.

It's not just what was in the tanker cars. It's what happens when they burn and combine. This may be the largest dioxin plume in world history. I know of no more serious release, ever.

The rapid growth of plastic waste is an ever-growing environmental and energy challenge. Selectively converting waste plastics to naphtha, a main feedstock for ethylene and the plastic industry, shows high potential to partially replace petroleum-route naphtha and alleviate global net carbon emissions.