What will it take to, as the report recommends, end plastics pollution by 2040? A group of global leaders, the High Ambition Coalition, established that target. We thought it was a reasonable goal and ...

Drawing inspiration from Pope Francis, the declaration concludes: “Plastic is not an isolated problem. Like climate change, air pollution, and escalating inequality, the plastics crisis is a social ...

It’s nonbinding and toothless. It’s really just a declaration of a good intention—the intention to end ocean plastic pollution. In that way it’s less like the Paris Agreement and more like ...

A specialist vacuum is being used to collect smaller plastic nurdles strewn across Norfolk's beaches. A "retrieval operation" is under way following the crash on 10 March, the coastguard says.

Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution are drawing to a close Sunday as nations continue debating whether part of that should be putting limits on plastic production. Negotiators spent ...