Plastic pollution ranks as one of the three most-pressing environmental concerns, along with climate change and water pollution, according to a 2019 survey included in the Business Case for a UN ...

Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned American waste imports in 2018. California shipped ...

As jockeying around the plastics treaty heats up ahead of August negotiations, global consumer brands are making the economic ...

Environmental ministers from 95 countries have called for a global treaty to address the planet's plastic pollution problem. ...

On marine pollution, India reported tangible results from the ‘Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar’ campaign, which has cleared over 1,000 km of coastline and removed more than 50,000 tonnes of ...

The UN has estimated that more than 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced annually, with less than 10% being recycled. Southeast Asia, once heavily impacted by plastic pollution, is now ...

Today, Recology, San Francisco’s employee-owned recycling company, pays $300-to-$500 to ship a container of recycled plastic across the Pacific–a fraction of the $3,500-to-$4,000 price tag for ...