NEWSWORTHY
International concern over the environmental damage done by the use of plastic in various forms is now the topic of political and economic discussions across the planet. Dealing with plastic waste, especially in the ocean, is one of the long-term issues that Japan has ...
For Kyoto, a chance to lead Japan in fight against food loss
Compared with constitutional revision, the economy, celebrity gossip and pontificating (if not panicking) over geopolitical changes in East Asia and Japan's role in those changes, Japan's mainstream media and politicians had, until recently, given environmental issues less attention. Suddenly, though, the environment is back on ...
Many local governments are struggling to cope after China banned such materials in 2017 out of concern over environmental pollution.
Japanese businesses and consumers should strive to reduce plastic waste by cutting back on the use of disposable plastic products.
Trendy bans on plastic straws are bunk
Skipping straws may be hip. But there are much better ways to fight pollution.
China's waste ban is a wake-up call for Japan
Tokyo can adopt solid resource management principles to help stem the rising tide of plastic.
Billions of bits of plastic waste are entangled in corals and sickening reefs from Thailand to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, scientists said on Thursday. The trash is another pressure on corals, already suffering from overfishing, rising temperatures caused by climate change and other pollution. In the ...
Arctic seas called dead end for plastic waste floating from U.S., Europe
The Arctic is a dead end for floating plastic waste dumped in the Atlantic Ocean off Europe and the United States and swept north by ocean currents to a polar graveyard, scientists said on Wednesday. Levels of plastic found east of Greenland and in the ...
