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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to require plastic packaging to have at least 15 percent recycled content to be part of the agency's Safer Choice ecolabel program, but the proposal is ...

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Only 9.5% of plastic materials produced globally in 2022 were manufactured from recycled materials. The findings, reported in Communications Earth & Environment, are part of a comprehensive analysis ...