Articles by Staff Writer Joseph Winters
Joseph Winters was previously a staff writer at Grist covering plastics, corporate sustainability commitments, and carbon markets, among other topics. He previously worked as a production assistant at the radio show Living on Earth and as an intern at Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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380 million tons of plastic are made every year. None of it is truly recyclable.
Not even water bottles and milk jugs meet standards for recyclability, a new report finds.
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The selective accounting behind the plastic industry’s climate-friendly claims
Industry groups are pushing the U.S. government to keep buying their plastics.
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![A water bottle dissolves into microplastics in the ocean]()
![A water bottle dissolves into microplastics in the ocean]()
All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too
Researchers worry that microplastics may be messing with an important carbon sequestration process.
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Inside the industry push to label your yogurt cup ‘recyclable’
A network of groups backed by the plastics industry claims polypropylene containers are “widely recyclable,” despite ample evidence to the contrary.
