Letting Formosa build the plant would be a disaster for the people in Cancer Alley, who have already suffered enough. Reading time 4 minutes Sharon Lavigne won the 2021 Goldman Prize for environmental ...
About 400 million tons of plastic are produced each year, but less than 10% is recycled, with most of the rest ending up incinerated or in landfills. One reason is that it is difficult for ...
A massive Formosa Plastics complex in St. James Parish was denied an air permit by a Louisiana judge on the grounds that it would harm the Black community, dealing a significant setback to the $9.4 ...
Plastic waste is a well-documented problem, but one of the reasons post-consumer plastic is piling up in landfills is the challenge of recycling complex polymers. Tennessee-based specialty materials ...
Millions of tons of plastic waste accumulate in landfills and oceans every year. One promising response is to engineer microbes to break the plastic down into useful chemical building blocks. However, ...