This week, the Trump administration dealt another blow to efforts to reduce plastic pollution by reversing the U.S. Department of the Interior’s policy phasing out single-use plastics across our national parks and public lands. The 2022 policy was a modest but meaningful step toward reducing the flood of unnecessary, unrecyclable plastic pollution that ends up…

By Katie Drews, National Coordinator for AMBR & Co-Director and CEO of Eureka Recycling The Chemicals of Concern Policy Summit, convened by OPLN, brought together a compelling cross-section of scientists, environmental advocates, industry leaders, and policy experts to tackle one of the most urgent public health challenges of our time: the toxic chemicals embedded in…

Every few months, another news outlet—most recently The New York Times—publishes a  “gotcha” headline claiming that recycling doesn’t work. That assertion is entirely false. While it may be an effective strategy for getting clicks, these misleading claims do a great disservice to us all.  As recyclers, we know recycling works. We also intimately understand that…