According to a post by the Plastic Pollution Coalition, a project of Earth Island Institute, Recycle Hawai'i and the ...

Ahead of the expected finalization of a UN global plastics treaty, a group of international experts calls for a greater focus on health impacts when considering plastic pollution. The Health Policy ...

Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second. Plastic is everywhere in modern life and has essential, lifesaving ...

The world currently produces more than 50 million tonnes of “mismanaged” plastic waste each year, and some researchers project this flood of pollution into the environment will double by mid-century.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Bangladesh generates around 87,000 tons of single-use plastics annually, of which 96% are directly discarded as garbage. Due to lack of awareness, ...

Dar es Salaam. Plastic waste that would otherwise end up polluting rivers and the ocean is being transformed into economic opportunities for young Tanzanians, following an initiative that has seen 120 ...

Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK), and other stakeholders have called for stronger government policies and stricter ...

What happens to plastics in the food production and distribution value chain is exercising the minds of environmentalists.

The Embassy of France in Nigeria has completed a three-year €753,000 Plastic Waste Processing Project to strengthen recycling, innovation and entrepreneurship ...

THE plastic pollution crisis is a public health crisis as well as an environmental one. In Southeast Asia, about 50 percent ...

T’puram: For the past four years, more than 1,000 tonnes of plastic waste have been intercepted and prevented from entering ...

A river-cleaning initiative in Thiruvananthapuram has removed more than 1,000 tonnes of plastic wastefrom rivers and canals ...