Ahead of the UN treaty on plastics, a new report in The Lancet journal on Monday has warned that plastic pollution is an ...

Ahead of the expected finalization of a UN global plastics treaty, a group of international experts calls for a greater focus on health impacts when considering plastic pollution. The Health Policy ...

Plastic pollution is an underrecognized threat to health, experts warn as they launch a project to track plastics' health ...

An international initiative launched by Lancet researchers aims to track health impacts from plastics ahead of the world's ...

The report reviews the current evidence on how plastics -- including microplastics and plastic chemicals -- impact health ...

A woefully small amount of plastic waste is currently recycled. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency puts the recycling rate in this country at just 9 percent.

The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more.

With World 'Off Track' on Cutting Plastic Waste, States to Play Larger Role Published Dec 18, 2024 at 7:47 AM EST Updated Dec 18, 2024 at 7:47 AM EST ...

So in 2022, U.N. member states said they'd write a legally binding agreement to keep plastic waste out of the environment.

“Most waste pickers, however, only collect the valuable materials, such as metal or plastic PET bottles (which they sell on to aggregators, who act as middlemen that then sell to the recyclers).

Plastic waste is everywhere. Each year, around 400 million metric tons of it end up in landfills and places like oceans, rivers and shorelines. The trash breaks down into tiny pieces called ...

HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that's failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to gain state approval to store plastic, workers quickly ...