Representatives from 175 countries will gather in Geneva, Switzerland, in August for the final round of negotiations on a ...

On March 2, 2022, delegates to the UN environment assembly adopted an ambitious resolution to develop the text of a new treaty by the end of 2024 to end plastic pollution. With 24 days of formal ...

Using a novel machine learning approach to forecast the future of plastics, researchers demonstrated that just four policy interventions could eliminate 91% of the world’s plastic waste by 2050.

Eliminate problematic, unnecessary and harmful plastic packaging by embracing redesign, innovation, and new delivery models. Ensuring 100% of plastic packaging produced is reusable, recyclable or ...

In March 2022, 167 nations -- nearly 90% of the UN's membership -- agreed to develop a "legally binding agreement" to "end plastic pollution." This past week, UN member countries gathered in South ...

This November, our governments face a historic moment to tackle a pressing global challenge. A UN treaty to end plastic pollution will enter its final round of negotiations in Busan, Republic of ...

The United Nations is poised to approve a plan to create the first-ever global plastic pollution treaty, hailing the resolution as the most important multilateral climate deal since the landmark ...

The final round of global talks aimed at ending plastic pollution opened in South Korea Monday, although optimism was low among delegates that a deal was on the horizon. The challenge they face is ...

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“It is actually possible to nearly end plastic pollution with this treaty,” Douglas J. McCauley, a professor of ocean science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said in an email.

Scientists and theologians are calling for an end to unethical and immoral “unchecked increases in plastic production,” they write in a Declaration produced during the conference "Joining Science and ...

Oil and chemical companies who created a high-profile alliance to end plastic pollution have produced 1,000 times more new plastic in five years than the waste they diverted from the environment, ...