A report assessing state policies on plastics comes just weeks before negotiators meet to attempt to finalize a global treaty on plastic waste.

The presence of MNPs in our food supply leads to human exposure to these particles. While the health consequences are still ...

The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more.

A fifth of all discarded plastic in the world is either littered or burned, new research suggests. Academics at the University of Leeds estimate that 52.1 million tonnes of waste – enough to ...

The first playbook covers household waste segregation and maps the steps Alliance project partners — including BASF, Chevron Phillips Chemical, ExxonMobil, Dow Chemical, Mitsubishi Chemical ...

Using artificial Intelligence and satellite data, Minderoo Foundation has produced the first-ever map of plastic waste build up. Most of our data about plastic waste comes from models and estimates.

Each year, more than 380 million tons of plastics are produced globally. Less than 10% of these plastics are reused or recycled, leading to significant accumulation and waste, not to mention the ...

Amazon generated 709 million pounds of plastic waste in 2021, an 18 percent increase from 2020, according to a new report from environmental group Oceana. About 26 million pounds of the company ...

Both waste and production are on the rise: Between 1950 and 2020, production of plastic, which is made from fossil fuels, increased from roughly two million tons annually to just over 500 million ...

The Plastic Pollution Coalition is one of 345 official nominators from 80 countries to select projects “with simple but ambitious goals for our planet which, if achieved by 2030, will improve ...