It has been more than two months since we boarded a plastics industry tanker in Daesan, South Korea, to highlight the urgent ...

Besides being an eyesore, this plastics pollution is also a health hazard – and it’s not just a problem in this village. Everywhere in Malaysia plastics pollution continues to pose an ...

The trade war initiated by the United States’ Trump administration has led to a drop in the price of virgin plastic, hurting ...

The road to Busan was paved with good intentions, but the fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) session for a United Nations (UN) Global Plastics Treaty (INC-5) ended without an ...

Today, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), a network with more than 1,000 members in all United Nations ...

The image of a sea creature entangled in plastic is not new, but it never fails to prompt a visceral response from the audience — a mix of guilt and helplessness in the face of a plastic crisis ...

Many plastics are used for packaging. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers and lakes. Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Six people have died in a fire in a hotel resort construction site in South Korea's port city of Busan, according to the city's fire agency, with a helicopter used to pluck some ...

Many plastics are used for packaging ... Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution concluded in Busan, South Korea in December without reaching an agreement. This was supposed to be ...

binding obligations to phase out the most problematic and unnecessary plastic products and the hazardous chemicals present in plastics are needed to end global plastic pollution.” However, despite the ...