On 29 October 2024, the Army awarded Lockheed Martin a contract modification with a not-to-exceed value of $752.3 million and current obligations of $368.6 million to support the increased ...

Now, a study published in Chemosphere, which was led by researchers at Toxic-Free Future and the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment at Vrije Universiteit, gives even more reason to ...

There are likely hundreds of trillions of pieces of plastic floating around the world ... South America’s Suriname ranked second, producing 6.37 pounds (2.89 kilograms) per person.

That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic utensil has long been seen as worrisome because heat can cause chemicals in the ...

The study found the highest levels of flame retardants in styrene-based plastic, which is often shaped into single-use items (labeled as #6). But other types, such as polypropylene (labeled as #5 ...

The moment of truth is almost upon us. In just ten days, the world will gather in Busan, Republic of Korea, to begin the final round of negotiations on a legally binding instrument to end plastic ...

Meanwhile, plastic pollution could nearly double, reaching 121 million metric tons, according to the study. In such a business-as-usual scenario, the world would amass sufficient waste between ...

Scores are stagnating or increasing at less than half of the required rate for some indicators, including managing municipal solid waste, production-based air pollution, and exports of plastic waste.

Four global policies could eliminate more than 90% of plastic waste and 30% of linked carbon emissions by 2050 Date: November 14, 2024 Source: University of California - Santa Barbara Summary: A ...

A study released in Science determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste—plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution—by 91% and ...