US officials outlined their new position at a meeting in Nairobi, where key divisions persisted ahead of August talks to ...

Scientists found microplastics in fluids around human eggs and sperm. Plastics from cookware and packaging affect human ...

EcoWaste Coalition reveals toxic cadmium and phthalate in plastic tarpaulins 3 July 2025, Quezon City.  Advocates for the ...

In 2019, when the UN Environmental Assembly last gathered face-to-face in Nairobi, talks about plastic waste were stymied primarily by the United States, which opposed a binding treaty.

As jockeying around the plastics treaty heats up ahead of August negotiations, global consumer brands are making the economic ...

“History shows that successful international environmental treaties are possible, as long as they have teeth,” says co-author ...

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Countries have shown a united front for ambition after talks on a landmark plastic pollution treaty collapsed last year.

Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned American waste imports in 2018. California shipped ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

The treaty, spearheaded by the United Nations in March 2022, aims to address plastic waste across its full life cycle—from production to disposal—and is expected to be finalised in 2026 following ongo ...

Malaysia has tightened imports of plastic waste, a move hailed by campaigners as a major step in protecting human health and ...