Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy calls on brands to join critical work to increase recovery of valuable small-format plastic packaging typically lost to landfills. The findings ...

Plastic waste is shifting from environmental burden to a strategic resource as advanced materials turn industrial waste into ...

Mangroves protect coasts and wildlife, but plastic waste now builds up inside roots, harming ecosystems and communities.

With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

What type of pollution is so tiny it can be invisible to the naked eye? Hint: Humans ingest it through the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink. The answer: microplastics.

Plastic waste turns up in many places, sometimes piled at the edge of a road, sometimes tucked behind homes. In a growing ...

Researchers warn that plastic production and emissions are driving a rising global health burden, measured in millions of lost healthy years.

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The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

Across many urban neighborhoods in the Global South, plastic waste is being used not just as something to throw away but as a ...

The world generates approximately 2.01 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste annually, with at least 33 per cent of that not managed in an environmentally safe manner and this is projected to ...