This means more toxic air pollution and plastic in our oceans. We need urgent action to address the global plastic pollution epidemic. Unfortunately, plastic is so durable that the EPA reports “every ...

was meant to draft an international legally binding instrument to tackle the plastic pollution problem. The momentum is building as over 260 businesses, from multinationals to local enterprises, have ...

end plastics pollution by 2040? A group of global leaders, the High Ambition Coalition, established that target. We thought it was a reasonable goal and we incorporated it into our report. Clearly, we ...

Plastics are undeniably useful materials that have found their way into virtually all human activities. However, with yearly global plastic production exceeding 400 million tons, the environmental ...

The final round of global talks aimed at ending plastic pollution opened in South Korea Monday, although optimism was low among delegates that a deal was on the horizon. The challenge they face is ...

Negotiators representing governments, business interests and environmental groups from around the world did not finalize an agreement to end plastic pollution ... for a Global Plastics Treaty ...

The Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, will be the global focus of efforts to tackle the climate crisis in November 2025, when ...

The INC was part of an ambitious United Nations (UN) initiative that commenced in March 2022 to develop a legally binding global instrument aimed at addressing plastic pollution. The effort ...

Slated for 4:30 p.m. on Friday, the showing will be followed with a Q&A featuring Jessica Winter of Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County.

Studies show the urgency of addressing plastic pollution. The OECD's Global Plastics Outlook reports that annual global plastics production skyrocketed from 234 million tons in 2000 to 460 million ...

BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — The world’s nations will wrap up negotiating a treaty this weekend to address the global plastic pollution crisis. Their meeting concludes Sunday or early Monday in ...