The Singapore-based Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) has issued two playbooks designed to boost the collection and sorting of plastic packaging for recycling, including one that addresses the role ...

A new Curtin University-led study has shed new light on the widespread number of households in developing countries burning ...

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Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

It’s late evening on a Friday in December, the eve of my daughter’s fifth birthday. The kids are upstairs asleep and my husband has called it a day. It’s just me in the living room — me, a giant box ...

Amid a summer of historic headlines, the Biden-Harris administration quietly took consequential action last month that will benefit the health of all Americans for generations to come. The federal ...

People walking the streets of downtown Petaluma, California, started seeing something new on the sidewalks in summer. Alongside the usual trash cans and recycling containers were large purple bins ...

The Ciliwung is a highly polluted river running from Mount Pangrango in western Java, through the city of Bogor, before ending in the bay north of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital. Since 2018, Bogor Mayor ...

Children play in a pile of scrap plastic in a village in East Java, Indonesia, while their mother nearby spends the day picking through it for tiny pieces of cardboard to sell back to the paper mill.

Turkey has been the largest recipient of plastic waste from European countries for five years in a row, according to a new report from Greenpeace Turkey. As the upcoming Global Plastics Treaty (GPT) ...