Negotiators fail to reach agreement on plastic pollution treaty at talks in South Korea More than 100 countries want the treaty to limit production as well as tackle cleanup and recycling ...

weak enforcement blamed for failed plastic ban Health risk of plastic pollution has regained focus after a study on plastic contamination has highlighted that plants can absorb microplastics from ...

But one part of the country is leading the way in tackling the plastic pollution crisis by introducing ... rewarding consumers one point for every bottle or can deposited. These can then be ...

And the 5 Gyres Institute is kicking off its fourth annual Plastic-Free Parks TrashBlitz project to do just that. The community science initiative's mission is to track pollution trends in the U.S ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis ... plastic bottles, bottle caps and food wrappers, the nonprofit said. Most plastic is made from fossil ...

"Alarming" levels of microplastic have been found in major rivers across Europe according to scientists in 14 studies ...

A bill in the Nevada Legislature aims to reduce plastic pollution around Lake Tahoe by banning the sale of small plastic water ... They removed more than 2,000 plastic water bottles and 4,000 plastic ...

Each year, the equivalent of up to 7,300 truckloads of plastic pellets are lost to the environment. Today, the EU has taken a landmark step toward reducing pellet pollution by adopting measures to ...

To reduce plastic pollution, the Karnataka government is ... for scientific disposal of plastic bottles. The plastic bottle menace can be controlled if the buyback scheme can be implemented ...

PARIS, April 16 (Reuters) - A 28-year-old Belgian man has apologised after hurling a plastic bottle at former world champion Mathieu van der Poel during Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix race, an act that ...