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Chinese plastics buyers resist switch back to US propane despite pause in trade war
Chinese plastics factories left without US raw material when trade relations collapsed earlier this year are holding back from returning…
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Business
How Sarah Paiji Yoo, the Co-Founder of Blueland, Spends Her Sundays
Sarah Paiji Yoo started her career in finance and then founded several start-ups, mostly in the fashion and beauty worlds. But during…
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Fence-line communities hope plastics treaty might ease pollution burden
Organizers in communities near the petrochemical plants that produce plastics hope that a global treaty to limit plastic waste can reduce…
Lifestyle
NYU doc wants "chemicals of concern" out of plastic products
During last week's "The Future of Plastics: Reducing Waste and Rethinking Materials" event, environmental sustainability and health…
Lifestyle
Recycling's best hope? People want to do the "right thing," expert says
It's no secret that humans produce large amounts of plastic waste globally. But the exact scale of that quantity is often difficult to…
News
UN plastic treaty talks were not a failure, experts say at Newsweek panel
On the heels of global negotiations over a plastic waste treaty, Newsweek Environmental Sustainability and Governance Editor Jeff Young…