Six-figure operator jobs at Gulf Coast chemical plants require certain mechanical skills that have fallen out of vogue in an increasingly digital world.

Single-stream recycling is convenient for consumers, but difficult for recycling companies. It requires a long and complicated process to make trash valuable.

The company takes used and discarded symbols of the pandemic and turns them into items such as coat hangers and classroom rulers.

Plastics are regarded as “Plan B” for the fossil fuel industry.

Women’s rights advocates say the plastics ban leaves low-income women with few options.