Millions of tons of plastic foul the world around us
On a Philippines beach, barefoot children jumped and played on shoals of plastic washed ashore in previous typhoons.
Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic ...
Why is a global treaty on plastic pollution dividing the world?
Plastic pollutes oceans, food, your body. Yet nations are divided over a global treaty. Why all eyes are on talks for a ...
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Bye-Bye microplastics: Japanese researchers develop plastic that dissolves into the sea
With less than 10% of global plastic recycled and the rest wreaking havoc on ecosystems, a team of Japanese scientists has ...
The Global Energy Transition: How Plastics And Chemicals Firms Can Adapt
In the long term, the world is heading for greener economies of scale, which entail gradual displacement from fossil fuels ...
‘A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’: The world’s fight to curb plastic waste
Countries are hammering out a document that aims to “end plastic pollution” by not only improving how the world handles ...
These countries produce the most plastic pollution in our oceans – and they’re not the ones you might have guessed
While China and the US are the world’s largest plastic producers, as well as the countries with the largest emissions of ...
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The United Nations Global Plastics Treaty: validating the struggles of fenceline communities in Louisiana
Though the Biden Administration backtracked its support of a cap on plastic production only a week before UN negotiations ...