Trump has long been a vocal opponent of plastic reduction efforts. In 2019, his campaign sold red plastic straws labeled with ...

Abdallah Mitawi, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Vice President’s Office, discussed the low recycling rate here yesterday, ...

With 6mn tonnes entering oceans every year and over twice that amount polluting land, mismanaged plastic waste is severely disrupting ecosystems, harming biodiversity and threatening human health ...

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Nepal’s urban areas generate about 5,000 tonnes of solid waste per day, according to the World Bank, of which 13 per cent is plastic waste dumped in landfills. While high-value plastics ...

If we all do a bit of these three then we’ll be well on our way’, she says. Sweden has long had a can and bottle deposit system that gives people money back when they recycle – since 1984 for ...

You can usually find these within every neighbourhood. Image: Depositphotos Municipalities usually have containers for waste, paper, glass, plastic, metal, and drink packaging (PMD). These communal ...

So they turned the problem into a business venture, called GreenLabs Recycling, with a goal of putting the discarded plastic to productive use. Now, under the leadership of chief executive Sam ...

Considering that only one-tenth of all plastic waste is recycled, new technologies that can help tackle this growing problem are urgently required. Catalytic recycling techniques, such as ...

The plastic was then being passed onto manufacturers to be repurposed into new products. But by late 2022, according to the supermarkets, a 300% increase in collection volumes since 2019 was colliding ...

The agency, in a statement on Tuesday, noted that it specifically aims to exchange experiences and inculcate best practices in plastic waste management, leveraging on Rwanda’s notable progress ...