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.

The World Bank Group has taken an active role in the INC process by organizing side events, sharing analytical tools, and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Plastic pollution is choking the planet.From the bottom of the Mariana trench to the top of Mount Everest, there is little escaping the problem. Regardless, treaty negotiations to end plastic ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON — The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people's bodies, according to a ...