Why claims about recyclability have confused consumers, and how forthcoming guidelines from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ...

Jan Dell is a former chemical engineer who has spent years telling an inconvenient truth about plastics. "So many people, they see the recyclable label, and they put it in the recycle bin," she said.

Recycling plastic isn't working. The figure most often cited is that only nine per cent of the world's plastic has ever been recycled. That statistic is taken from a 2017 study looking at how much ...