The final round of negotiations at the Global Plastics Treaty (INC5) will take place from 25th November – 1st December 2024 in Busan, Korea. The last round of negotiations ended with a ballooned and ...

With emissions spiralling and health impacts mounting, the time for half-measures is over, say experts; India must confront the scale of its plastic pollution Despite ongoing efforts to curb ...

This includes litter, uncollected waste from areas that don’t have regulated trash or recycling pickup, and plastic that recycling centers can’t process. “We took the data from about 500 to ...

JB Pritzker. As an organizer and advocate working in Chicago to reduce single-use plastics, I’d like to share some insights about how this came to be. Dozens of civic groups, museums and ...

Engel will guide you through upgrading your equipment to enhance monitoring ... technologies and trends that are driving and shaping the evolution of plastic products manufacturing — from ...

India contributes to a fifth of global plastic pollution, a study published in the journal Nature last week found. India burns roughly 5.8 million tonnes (mt) of plastic each year, and releases ...

Ed Cook is active across the waste management and plastic pollution sector. He has worked on projects funded by the World Bank, OECD, UKRI, BBSRC, UNOPS, Royal Academy of Engineering, Pew ...

with 30 million tons of plastic burned in 2020 without environmental oversight—an uncontrolled process that can release carcinogens, particulate pollution and heavy metals that have severe ...

Crew have teamed up for the ultimate dose of nostalgia this fall. To mark the relaunch of the retailer's iconic catalog, the actress, 61, appears as one of four cover stars of the fall 2024 issue.

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that ...

A radical new process "vaporizes" plastic bags and bottles to help make recycled materials. The innovative chemical procedure turns the ubiquitous waste items into hydrocarbon "building blocks ...

Machine learning has been used to turn a survey of local waste-management practices into a global inventory of plastic emissions. The data show that tackling plastic pollution will require reduced ...