Sustainability leaders in 15 St. Louis area cities and counties, along with recycling advocates, are hosting public ...

The SM group, most notably its retail and shopping mall business, has been taking steps to reduce plastic use, recognizing that key contributors of plastic waste include bags at retail outlets ...

Los Angeles County is taking on Pepsi and Coke for their role in plastic pollution. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the county ...

Final negotiations for the first-ever United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are due to take place at the end of November. The latest treaty draft states two major objectives: to end plastic ...

As the global polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging industry faces unprecedented regulatory pressure to reduce virgin ...

California has a plastic bag problem — but not for long. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law fully banning plastic shopping bags in grocery stores, updating a decade-old ban ...

Missouri Botanical Garden is partnering with cities and recycling advocates to set up collection sites for yard signs through Nov. 15, keeping over 2,500 pounds of plastic and 1,200 metal stakes ...

PETALING JAYA: Plastic packaging players in Malaysia are expected to see sustained order growth in the second half of 2024. This positive outlook is supported by the recovery in manufacturing ...

RACINE, Wis.—Billionaire Fisk Johnson has been on a crusade to contain the plastic waste crisis. He has gone scuba diving among plumes of plastic sludge. He has funded research on how ...

Plastic Water Bottle Floating in Pacific Ocean, Santa Monica, California, USA (Photo by: Citizen of ... [+] the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) More than 20 chief ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. For the past several years, I’ve been telling my friends what I’m going to tell you: Throw out your black plastic spatula.