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Tag: Jan Dell

The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic – Grist

Oreos, a Mondelez company product, on store shelf (by Ted CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr).

A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here’s how it works…

How to create a ‘world without waste’? Here are the plastic industry’s ideas – Grist Magazine

Pre-production plastic pellets are melted down and used in the manufacturing of the plastic products that we use everyday. These pellets enter the environment and are frequently found in areas of marine debris concentration (Courtesy of NOAA Marine Debris Program CC BY 2.0 via Flickr).

A deep dive into the petrochemical industry’s proposals for the global plastics treaty….

How the recycling symbol lost its meaning – Grist Magazine

Grunge textured recycling symbol on vintage paper (by Nicolas Raymond CC BY 2.0 via Flickr).

Of the 147 companies with a package recyclability goal, only 15 percent were on track to meet it…

Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. An investigation finds it usually isn’t – Grist Magazine

Amazon Prime - New Packaging (by Mark Mathosian CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED via Flickr).

Trackers placed in 93 bundles of Amazon packaging marked for “store drop-off” recycling showed many of them were buried or burned…

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