More: Plastic Pollution
New UN initiative to reduce plastic pollution from ASEAN cities
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in partnership with the Government of Japan, today launched a new...
Plastic in pandemic: Genie is out of the bottle again
In the past few weeks, our environment witnessed an immense reduction in the amount of pollution across the globe. The average levels of nitrogen...
UNIDO, Japan launch study on how to combat plastic pollution
The Federal Government of Nigeria, in partnership with
the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the
Government of Japan, is going to study the availability...
Making the impossible possible
Sitting at a bus stop one day when she was 16, When Miranda Wang saw
someone throw a plastic bottle into a trash bin, even...
Global Tourism Plastics Initiative Takes On One of the Worst Polluters
The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative is ground-breaking and ambitious in its goals. It aims to reduce the amount of plastic pollution caused by the...
Hyatt Launches Three Global Initiatives to Significantly Reduce Single-Use Plastics
Hyatt Hotels Corporation is announcing a series
of initiatives to reduce waste at Hyatt hotels globally, including introducing
large-format bathroom amenities and reducing single-use water bottles...
New report reveals progress towards eliminating plastic pollution
The positive scale of global efforts to prevent plastic pollution has
been revealed in a new report published by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration...
The Threat to Life from Ocean Microplastics
Authors: Meena Miriam Yust and Arshad Khan
When
Chelsea Rochman at the University of Toronto and colleagues began their study on medakas (small Japanese
rice paddy fish), they did...
Can Recycling Really Solve The Plastic Problem?
Authors: Meena Miriam Yust and Arshad M. Khan
The practice of recycling has everything to commend
it: On a finite planet, it conserves resources; it is...
WWF Launches Activation Hub to Help Prevent 10 Million Metric Tons of Global Plastic Waste
The global plastic pollution crisis is
threatening the natural environment on which we depend – impacting oceans, communities,
wildlife, and people at an unprecedented rate. While...