The biggest issue of the talks has been whether the treaty should impose caps on producing new plastic or focus instead on ...

An estimated 1.5 billion masks ended up in the oceans in 2020 alone. New study reveals unforeseen danger lurking in discarded ...

As UN treaty talks stall over plastic production cuts, global industry faces growing pressure to adapt supply chains and ...

Koa Smith, Tom Carroll, and Pacha Light – bring awareness to Indonesia's environmental issues in new film from Uriel Jean-Armel.

Recycling is billed as the holy grail of a circular economy, but experts agree: we can’t recycle our way out of the plastics ...

The report highlights how more than 16,000 chemicals are used in plastic, many of which are not disclosed by the companies making it. Plastic chemicals are tied to health effects at all stages of ...

The Urban Olive & Vine in Hudson, Wisconsin proudly makes a point of exclusively hiring teenagers. For years, owners Chad and Carol Trainor have supported them as they transitioned on to other ...

Negotiations over a global plastic pollution treaty collapsed Friday as countries failed to bridge wide gaps on whether the world should limit plastic manufacturing and restrict the use of harmful ...

A smaller group, including fossil-fuel producers, said they would not accept a treaty with limits on production. Gas and oil ...

Geneva - The Plastics Treaty INC-5.2 negotiations closed today without an agreement, despite the majority of nations calling ...

The research used on-the-ground data from rivers in Mexico, Jamaica, Panama, Ecuador, Kenya, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia.