PUTRAJAYA: The government is crafting a national policy on the production, consumption and disposal of plastic in line with ongoing negotiations of the Global Plastic Treaty (GPT), says Nik Nazmi ...

He was left tied up in a parking lot, abandoned in -30 degree weather, with wounds over his body and wrapped in plastic wrap ... Each year, 6.3 million pets enter U.S. shelters, an average ...

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, explains the nonprofit's mission to clean up floating plastic in the Great ... said Monday in a post on X that it has now collected over 10 ...

OTTAWA - Negotiators from 175 countries are meeting from April 23 in Canada to nail down a binding global treaty to end plastic pollution ... four decades. Only 9 per cent is recycled and ...

nearly a fifth of the world's shrinking carbon budget — the emissions allowance to keep warming under 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels — will be taken up by plastic production and use ...

The use of plastic has increased from 59 metric tonnes in 2015 to 300 metric tonnes per day now, say environmentalists. A 2015 study by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on the impact of ...

Making the switch away from plastic usage can feel like a near-impossible task. "Whether we like it or not, plastics are not going away," said Christopher Reddy, Scientist at Woods Hole ...

Hong Kong on Monday (Apr 22) started phasing in a ban on disposable plastic products across restaurants and businesses, setting a six-month deadline for the city to eliminate plastic cutlery and ...

Ottawa (AFP) – Negotiators from 175 countries are meeting from Tuesday in Canada to nail down a binding global treaty to end plastic pollution ... four decades. Only 9 percent is recycled ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Monday is Earth Day, and one of the easiest ways to help the environment is to reduce your use of plastic. Twenty two million pounds of plastic waste end up in the Great Lakes ...

Reducing plastic use is a great way to minimize our negative impact on the environment. Small changes can add up to make a big difference in reducing plastic waste. Start with a few that are ...

Britain is to ban the billions of toxic plastic wet wipes which clog sewers ... year - that's an insane 38,000 wet wipes each over our lifetime. 'Clogging waterways and leaching microplastics ...