Tag: plastic

Today’s ESG Updates Winter Storm Cuts Power to Over 400,000: A severe storm hit much of the U.S., causing over ...

For most of human history, survival was a gamble. Half of all children never reached puberty. Life expectancy hovered around ...

In 2025, as in previous years, Impakter readers turned in large numbers to stories examining climate change and pollution, environmental ...

There has been growing attention to the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” by those who correctly recognize it as an environmental disaster. ...

The global annual production of plastics rose to 400 million metric tons in 2022 and is projected to double by 2050. Many items ...

Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify ...

Today’s ESG Updates: Plastic Pollution Treaty Talks Extended: Global negotiations on the world’s first legally binding plastic treaty stalled. Norsk ...

Soil health is a critical global issue. World Soil Day reminds us that degraded soils affect food security, water quality and ecosystems. ...

WWF is concerned that with just 36 hours left before the fifth and final negotiations for a global plastic pollution ...

A WWF policy brief analysing the third iteration of the “non-paper,” a document that will serve as the basis of negotiations at INC-5, the ...

Researchers at UC Berkeley have engineered a new method of vaporizing plastic and converting it into useful hydrocarbons. This innovation addresses ...

Wherever you are currently reading this, it is virtually guaranteed that something made of plastic or containing plastic components is ...