Plastic use keeps rising rapidly while recycling struggles. Incineration grows steadily, but it may harm more than help.

Indonesia is promoting 'reuse' as a key solution to its plastic waste crisis, with civil society and the Ministry of ...

Chennai: About one-third of the city's 6,000tonnes of waste will soon be transported to the suburbs in Vengadamangalam after ...

A report by Beyond Plastics says local governments in NY could save more than $1billion if companies used less plastic in their packaging.

Cutting down on the production of virgin plastics is essential, campaigners say, in the face of such low reuse rates.View on ...

Yaan Foundation volunteers collect plastic waste daily, raise awareness about pollution, and offer free tree planting ...

Only 9.5% of plastic materials produced globally in 2022 were manufactured from recycled materials. The findings, reported in ...

The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10% with most new plastic still made from fossil fuels, a new study said Thursday.

ZERO waste advocates were rather shocked when the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) in a social media ...

With the Islamic month of Ramadan now over, a familiar sight has returned to the streets of daytime Jakarta: street vendors ...

Globally, around 400 million tons of plastic waste is generated annually, with a historical accumulation exceeding 7 billion tons, yet less than 10 percent is recycled, according to the Nonmetallic ...

Plastics have also eased the world’s reliance on older materials, and on the living beings from which many of them came.