Plastic is a miracle substance that’s revolutionized healthcare, keeping things sterile, and has replaced glass and metal packaging, reducing carbon emissions from shipping goods. It even keeps ...

Recent concerns about contaminants in black-colored plastics sparked consumer concerns, but there’s more than one reason to ...

Since the film’s 1967 release, global plastic use has risen twentyfold. But the plot is thickening just as Big Oil grows ...

The vast majority of plastic is made from oil or natural gas. At nearly every round of talks over the past two years, those countries — which also include Iran and Russia — have been accused ...

“We are the canary in the coal mine.” Plastic is made with petroleum, in addition to more than 16,000 different chemicals. Just 6 percent of those chemicals are subject to international ...

But deep divisions remained between a group of nearly 100 "high ambition" countries calling for plastic to be phased out and oil-producing nations who warned this would affect the world's development.

As more plastic can be recycled, less oil must be dug up and refined into plastic. Origin has made substantial strides in the caps and closures business this year, completing manufacturing trials ...

The White House criticized a group of oil-rich countries as well as corporations who make money from plastic production in a new statement after global talks for a treaty to reduce plastic waste ...