The world creates over 350 million metric tons of plastic waste a year at present. Much of this is mismanaged, and ends up in our soils, waters, and air. In 2021, we mismanaged 68 million metric tons ...

The world produces nearly half a billion tons of plastic each year, more than double the amount from two decades ago ... to “give value to plastic at the end of its life.” ...

Plastic waste persists in the environment for centuries, or even longer. To protect the health of our planet and its inhabitants, we must act now to end plastic pollution. The End Plastic Pollution ...

BUSAN, South Korea — United Nations members had meant to use this past week to work out how to end ... rich and plastic-producing countries to block any proposals for the treaty that threatened to ...

based on the commitment to end plastic pollution by 2040. It aims to draw up a comprehensive approach that addresses the full life cycle of plastics, from production and consumption to disposal ...

SINGAPORE – Plastic is love, plastic is patriotic and, most of all, plastic is Indian. An effervescent proposition team for the motion This House Believes That Life In Plastic Is Fantastic ...

Single-use technologies have become a focal standard in biopharmaceutics. Compliance with cGMP criteria is also a matter of ...

a rift that threatens to scupper a two-year long quest for a deal. Plastic production will jump about 60% to 736 million tons a year by 2040, according to the Organization for Economic Co ...

2024 [Manami Yamada/Reuters] Two years ago, global leaders promised to establish a treaty by the end of 2024 that would lay the groundwork to end plastic pollution. The words used then to ...

On March 2, 2022, delegates to the UN environment assembly adopted an ambitious resolution to develop the text of a new treaty by the end of 2024 to end plastic pollution. With 24 days of formal ...

In 2019, the world’s largest oil and petrochemical companies launched the Alliance to End Plastic ... every two days. Not only are the companies not cleaning up nearly enough plastic, they ...