In Bangladesh, a booming black market for scraps of plastic has sprung up in vast rubbish tips – many of the workers are ...

With over 400 million tons of plastic produced annually — most of it non-recyclable — solutions require systemic transformation driven by bold leadership, private-sector innovation and dynamic ...

They’re in our blood and our brains. They’re in newborns and the elderly, urban and rural, rich and poor. What are they doing ...

Smithers, a leading provider of testing, consulting, information, and compliance services, is holding the Sustainability in ...

Here is a look at what black plastic is, the toxic chemicals it contains, and if one should be using black plastic spatulas ...

Much like recent EU legislation which required all plastic bottles to have caps attached by a tether, the removal of items ...

Plastic pollution backgrounder - Links to UN organizations, documents, publications, speeches and statements, UN conferences and observances ...

Danone has reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit with a coalition of NGOs in France around its use of plastics.

The 10 U.S. states with bottle bills recycle much more effectively. The Mosbacher report said those states recycle an average ...

Reuse and refill systems, which are severely underfunded compared to downstream solutions like recycling and recovery, need ...

Today, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), a network with more than 1,000 members in all United Nations ...