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

Lancet study reveals plastic pollution causes serious human health problems from factory production to waste disposal.

When Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa was a child, her mother sent her to market with a basket woven from grasses. “But now we don’t do ...

Mysuru: Hundreds of jaggery production units or ‘alemanes' in Chamarajanagar are burning worn-out tyres, plastic, and rubber ...

First Minister John Swinney has been called on to take urgent action to crackdown on plastic pollution. In an open letter ...

A final round of negotiations to adopt a global treaty against plastic pollution will take place in Geneva, Switzerland.

Discover the shocking $1.5trn cost of plastics on health. Learn about MNPs, mismanagement rates, recycling challenges, and ...

Madras have developed an agriculture waste-based packaging material, which can be a sustainable alternative to conventional ...

At dawn, before Kisii town stirs to life, Brian Makori a street boy used to bend over heaps of garbage at Nyambera dumping site on the outskirts of Kisii town, with bear hands sifting through plastic ...

THE Scottish government has been urged to stop the increasing levels of plastic pollution in an an open letter signed by 18 environmental and civil groups. First Minister John Swinney faced calls to ...

The packaging made from farm and paper waste could replace plastic. It cuts pollution, uses crop waste, and may bring new ...

Plastic pollution was a big-ticket item at a recent meeting of African environment ministers in Nairobi. The experience of communal farmers in the Eastern Cape, who are tackling single-use nappies ...