This week on Possibly, we’re taking a closer look at how plastics have given the fossil fuel industry a new business platform — with hardly anyone noticing they’re even in the market.
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Readers share wishes for 2025: Be kind to each other and Earth! Learn from birds!
We asked our readers to make a wish for 2025. If even one of these wishes comes true, the world will definitely be a better place!
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California’s first plastic bag ban made things worse. Now it’s trying again
California and other states — and some cities — have learned a lesson: Bans on plastic bags don’t always go as planned. In fact, California’s original ban made things worse.
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Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
Recycling “does not solve the solid waste problem,” the head of a plastics trade group said in 1989, around the time the industry was launching its recycling campaign.
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Researchers Find Another Threat For New England Corals: Plastic
Boston University biologist Randi Rotjan has been studying coral reefs for more than a decade. A couple years ago, she started to notice tiny bits of plastic “in all of our samples from everywhere,” she says. To understand how corals grow, she decided she was going to have to study how plastic gets into their bodies, how […]
