The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks ...

Plastic pollution is a major threat to human survival, with more than six hundred thousand tons of plastics on Earth. 2 In an effort to reduce the concentration of conventional plastics, scientists ...

Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, the world produced just two million tonnes,” according to the website Our World in Data. That figure grew to over 450 million ...

From right, Anthony Agotha, special envoy for Climate and Environment Diplomacy, European Union, Juan Carlos Monterrey, head of Panama's delegation, Olga Givernet, French Delegate Minister for Energy, ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

A joint research team has developed a technology to produce high-value-added plastic raw materials called dicarboxylic acids ...

Plastics play an enormous and growing role in our world, but one Weber State University student is finding ways to keep them ...

Negotiations to draft a legally binding treaty to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis have ended without an agreement, as countries failed to agree on key issues like cutting plastic production ...

Three German plastics associations told journalists on the eve of the K 2025 show that the plastics treaty could set global ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. What was supposed to be the final round of United Nations negotiations for a ...