THE National Environment Management Council (NEMC) has seized and destroyed 250 tonnes of banned plastic bags in a nationwide ...

I am referring to packaging material — a seemingly harmless cardboard or plastic bag that we get when ordering something ... term 'sachet economy' and further intensifies marine plastics pollution.

A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis ... of the American Progressive Bag Alliance, a group affiliated with ...

It is part and parcel of a plastic pollution crisis that experts say is ravaging ecosystems, exposing people to potentially harmful pollutants and stoking climate change. “Plastic pollution is one of ...

New Jersey's single-use plastic bag ban, enacted in May 2022, is considered the strongest nationwide. The ban has eliminated over 24 billion plastic bags and 480 million paper bags from the waste ...

Fashion may be one of the most polluting industries globally, but material innovators working with algae, coconut water, ...

Today, plastic pollution is everywhere and has impacts ... Research on how long plastic stays in the environment is extensive. A plastic bag could stay in the environment for around 20 years ...

The National Environment Management Authority has intensified its fight against plastic pollution with the introduction of an extended producer responsibility scheme, aimed at ensuring that ...

Negotiators fail to reach agreement on plastic pollution treaty at talks in South Korea More than 100 countries want the treaty to limit production as well as tackle cleanup and recycling ...

“The post-mortem at Sultan Idris Shah Hospital in Serdang found that the cause of death was plastic bag suffocation,” Bernama reported him as saying at the Klang Selatan police headquarters toda ...

The separation method was published in the journal Environmental Pollution in 2017. On average, Vanderzyl found 21 plastic bits per every 50 grams of sand. Most of them, he says, were microfibers ...