The UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Treaty (INC-5) negotiations in Busan, South Korea (2 December 2024), aimed to reach a binding global treaty to combat plastic pollution. This would ...

Trends highlight the increasing consumer demand for more sustainable products with less reliance on plastic packaging in the supply chain. Credit: Juicy FOTO via Shutterstock. The UN Intergovernmental ...

KATHMANDU, April 21: A significant multi-stakeholder interaction program was held in Kathmandu, focusing on the upcoming UN Plastic Pollution Treaty, INC4. The event, organized by the Nepali CSOs' ...

More than 390 million plastic straws are used every day in the United States, most for 30 minutes or less, according to ...

What to know about the larger fight over single-use plastics after Trump's executive order against paper straws.

From coastlines to capital cities, healthcare workers are warning about the immediate need for a treaty to end plastic pollution. The danger of a global health disaster is at its highest level as ...

The European Parliament held a plenary discussion last week about the breakdown of talks on the UN Global Plastics Treaty in late 2024. Magnus Brunner ... Business as usual was not an option, given ...

“The plastics industry is actually the fastest-growing source of industrial greenhouse gases in the world. The UN Environment Programme estimates that the greenhouse gas emissions from plastic ...

Negotiators making a final push to secure the world’s first treaty to combat plastic pollution are being urged to strike an ambitious deal at talks this week. A final round of UN negotiations on ...

The United Nations is considering holding the next – and sixth – session of global plastics treaty negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, in July. The UN’s fifth negotiating session – called INC-5 – was ...