PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More and more cities, including Philadelphia, are banning plastic bags because of environmental dangers. Some big box retailers offer drop-off bins for recycling, including ...

Solutions to the plastic waste crisis are often pitched using words that can skew value judgements, new research argues. The paper, authored by the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub at The ...

Nigeria's Federal Government has made plastic waste management a legally binding responsibility for producers, shifting to ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management with ...

If all goes according to plan, by the end of the year, some 170 countries will finalize the world’s first legally binding treaty to curtail plastic pollution. Its success will depend in no small part ...

The adoption of any new policies such as bottle bills, reuse systems, EPR or certain food packaging bans could reduce disposal by 10% to 20% by 2040. Such changes could influence new jobs and ...

During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...

THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) recognized the SM Group for its support of the Extended Producer Responsibility Program that aimed to reduce plastic use, recover plastic ...

HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that's failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to gain state approval to store plastic, workers quickly closed a ...

Waste management capacity expansion key to curb plastic pollution: Ocean Cleanup founder ...