Editorials Jun 23, 2018
Japanese businesses and consumers should strive to reduce plastic waste by cutting back on the use of disposable plastic products.
NEWSWORTHY
Commentary / World Jun 23, 2018
Trendy bans on plastic straws are bunk
by Adam Minter
Skipping straws may be hip. But there are much better ways to fight pollution.
Commentary / Japan May 30, 2018
China's waste ban is a wake-up call for Japan
by Leticia Sarmento Dos Muchangos
Tokyo can adopt solid resource management principles to help stem the rising tide of plastic.
Asia Pacific / Science & Health Jan 26, 2018
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 ...
World / Science & Health Apr 20, 2017
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 ...