Tag: plastic waste

Negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty, which were held last week in Busan, South Korea, organized by the UN Environment ...

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

Numerous publications and research findings about the increasing global plastics problems are being shared worldwide. Many focus on the proliferation ...

How London-based tech startup Sorted is leading the charge against plastic pollution with innovative waste management solutions A spike in ...

African cities generated a total of 19 million tonnes of plastic waste in 2015, of which 17 million tonnes were ...

More than 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced globally every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Less ...

Plastic waste has become a pervasive environmental, societal, and health issue, with an estimated 12 million tonnes of plastic finding ...

The European Commission is once again tackling microplastic pollution. After the glitter ban was announced earlier this month, the EU ...

Every week, humans could be ingesting between 0.1–5 g of microplastics on average, as per some scientists’ predictions. Every year, plastic ...

With microplastics thought to be potentially widely spread throughout the environment and human body; plastic waste of all shapes and ...

On May 10, scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and the Swiss Federal ...

A recent study published in the Nature Ecology & Evolution journal on April 17 revealed that the Great Pacific Garbage ...