The last time countries met to discuss the treaty was December, but they were unable to come to an agreement.  The global plastics treaty looks to phase out unnecessary plastics that cause ...

Achieving near-total plastic circularity is not only feasible, it is the most cost-effective and humane path forward in a ...

Using information from the Plasteax data platform the report theoretically shows how strategic mechanical and chemical ...

For more than two years, the UN member states have been trying to agree on a plastics treaty that includes globally binding ...

Eight billion tons of plastic have been produced since 1950 ... Environment Assembly – the annual meeting of environmental leaders from around the world convened by UN – approved a resolution calling ...

Yet a deal reached at the UN Biodiversity Conference last month in Rome ... diplomats used to seal the Rome agreement by initiating informal talks ahead of scheduled negotiations, Eriksen said. A ...

"The size of the faucet highlights the magnitude of the problem. It makes the problem impossible to ignore. We're used to ...

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 ...

Their findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, come as nations prepare to battle again over a treaty to address plastic pollution after the last round of negotiations ...

More than 25 major consumer brands and petrochemicals have been traced to fracking in the Permian Basin, one of the world’s ‘carbon bombs’.View on euronews ...

Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to reach agreement despite a pledge to do so by the year-end. The issue of plastic pollution on land and at sea needs to be ...