the world’s first treaty designed to tackle plastic pollution’s explosive growth. On the table is a proposal that aims to cut down on the millions of tons of plastic waste discarded each year.

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Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations ...

The fifth meeting of the UN’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) has ended without delivering a legally binding treaty to address global plastic pollution. The talks, which began in ...

In March 2022, at the resumed fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2), a historic resolution was adopted to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, ...

SINGAPORE - Plastic credits were mooted at United Nations talks as part of proposed ways to address global plastic pollution, but discussions on its use have so far been broad and preliminary ...

From Mumbai to New York, growing concerns over plastic pollution are becoming ubiquitous in major cities across the world. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), everyday ...

Current plastic pollution treaty texts don’t go far enough toward ending pollution but there is still time for governments to agree on a strong treaty by focusing on the most urgent and impactful core ...

The Environmental Quality Commission approved Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act rules to reduce waste from ...

Nov. 16, 2024 — Clinical visits by patients suffering ocular surface eye conditions more than doubled during times when ambient particulate matter from air pollution was in the atmosphere ...

CHIGASAKI, Japan, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Before global leaders take the problem of plastic pollution into their hands this month, Japanese manicurist Naomi Arimoto is putting it into her fingernails.