For the past few weeks, the internet has been obsessed with the strange case of Julian Brown—a 21-year-old inventor from Georgia who supposedly unlocked a secret Big Oil doesn’t want us to know.

“Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, the world produced just two million tonnes,” according to the website Our World in Data. That figure grew to over 450 million ...

As the world desperately searches for a way out of its global climate change and plastic pollution crises, nations are ...