Authorities are urging the federal government to secure a global action plan before pollution 'spirals out of control'.

As the world converges in Geneva from August 5 to 14 for the resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating ...

The aim of the new study was to explore the consequences of ingesting all of those chemicals on living organisms. The researchers put zebrafish larvae in the contaminated water for five days. That ...

Despite having over 5,000 plastic-producing industries, Bangladesh has fewer than 300 mostly informal recycling plants, leaving it ill-equipped to handle the 400 tons of daily plastic waste, including ...

What does the Global Plastics Treaty draft text currently look like, and what can we expect from the upcoming round of ...

E veryone's heard the warnings: The world produces 450 billion tons of plastic waste every year. It's polluting our oceans and landfills, and it's even invading our bodies. But what if we didn't just ...

Conservationist Ying Pemika Choovanichchanon holds a small basket in her hands, careful not to disturb the leathery brown ...

Members of the general public will have a chance to weigh in on the use of paper versus plastic straws as the federal government considers a new rule on the types of straws used by government ...

An estimated 28.6 billion cigarettes are smoked in Britain each year, the equivalent of 78 million a day, according to new analysis. There are particularly high levels of consumption in more ...

Engineered through microbial fermentation, EcoFLEXY is a biodegradable ingredient designed to replace fossil-based polymers ...

A chef is taking a large foodware company to court, claiming it is willfully ignoring California's single-use plastic ban.

On any given afternoon in the Binde and Nakpanduri communities in the North East Region, you are likely to spot a 50-year-old woman with a sack slung over her shoulder and stooping to pick up what mos ...