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“The world’s commitment to ending plastic pollution is clear and undeniable,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), when the fifth negotiation session for an ...

The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste.

A. J. Jacobs, writer for The New York Times, shared his attempt to avoid plastic in an article published Jan. 15, 2023: “On the morning of the day I had decided to go without using plastic products—or ...

Recycling bags in Mecklenburg County is a little different after county leaders took action in response to a Channel 9 ...

A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New York. A large pile of plastic bottles and cans collected on a street corner in downtown Manhattan, New ...

Most people assume that if it looks like plastic or cardboard, it's fair game, but a single grease-soaked pizza box or a ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Armed with gloves, rubber boots and a rake, "Mangrove Warrior" Willer Gualva, 68, comes to Freedom Island in the Philippines almost every day to stop it being engulfed by trash. No ...

With approximately 60,000 runners set to take part in the London Marathon this weekend, packaging waste experts at Business ...

The Women in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Advocacy Network (WinWASH) joins the global community to mark International Zero ...