If all goes according to plan, by the end of the year, some 170 countries will finalize the world’s first legally binding treaty to curtail plastic pollution. Its success will depend in no small part ...

Solutions to the plastic waste crisis are often pitched using words that can skew value judgments, new research argues. The ...

During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...

Waste management capacity expansion key to curb plastic pollution: Ocean Cleanup founder ...

Humans generate a lot of plastic waste – more than 400 million metric tons a year. Plastic products have been propelling our quality of life forward for over a century, from keeping food fresh longer ...

With 430 million tons of plastic waste generated annually and less than 10% of it recycled, the plastic crisis is out of control. Thankfully, HIRO Technologies is creating a new path forward, powered ...

The adoption of any new policies such as bottle bills, reuse systems, EPR or certain food packaging bans could reduce ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

Nigeria is moving to align policy and finance to address plastic waste, as the Nigeria National Plastic Action Partnership and ...

Agricultural waste is often seen as a disposal problem, but new research suggests it could be a powerful tool for climate change mitigation. A study published in Agricultural Ecology and Environment ...

THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) recognized the SM Group for its support of the Extended Producer Responsibility Program that aimed to reduce plastic use, recover plastic ...

HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that's failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to gain state approval to store plastic, workers quickly closed a ...