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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 ...

This discount is shown at checkout, if applicable. An estimated 52 million metric tons of plastic is spilling uncontrolled into the environment every year, according to a new study (Nature 2024 ...

So retired engineer Andy Roy came up with a low-cost artificial intelligence system to protect the docks at the Riverside Boat Club, where he rows, from the avian menace. Rowers on the wide river ...

As an organizer and advocate working in Chicago to reduce single-use plastics, I’d like to share ... usually a cap-and-trade or similar system. But the most effective price is a tax on carbon ...

Higher-income countries, on the other hand, produce more plastic waste but have more efficient waste disposal systems, so less of it turns into pollution. However, “we shouldn’t put the blame ...

The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according to a new study ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A new study finds that every year people create 57 million tons of plastic pollution. The material ends up ...

Without a government-issued trash system, many of those people bury their plastic waste, dump it in rivers or simply burn it. Few studies have attempted to account for the plastic that goes up in ...

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 ...

macroplastic pollution -- pollution from plastic objects larger than 5 millimeters -- is a comparatively small issue in the Global North as waste management systems function comprehensively.