Poor residents in Haiti and the Philippines can earn cash and other items by collecting otherwise ocean-bound plastic for “social” resin for manufacturers, including Henkel.

Poor residents in Haiti and the Philippines can earn cash and other items by collecting otherwise ocean-bound plastic for “social” resin for manufacturers, including Henkel.

An Arkansas plastics company that had been using workers provided by a drug treatment agency is caught up in lawsuits alleging that the program amounted to “human trafficking and forced labor.”