plastic waste

Environment and energy ministers from the Group of 20 agreed to the outline of a new international framework in order to tackle the problem of marine plastic waste.

Group of 20 nations’ environment and energy ministers gather to search for innovative ways to combat emissions-driven climate change and eliminate plastic waste.

Forcing rich countries to keep and process all of their own recycling isn't the best way to protect the environment.

In an annual report released Friday, the government stressed the need to review the handling of plastics by offering successful examples of municipal and corporate efforts to reduce plastic waste. "The time has come when we must rethink how we deal with plastics on a ...

On a moonlit night off Italy's coast, fishermen are hauling in the usual catch: cuttlefish, red mullet and plastic waste. But this time, they won't throw the rubbish back. The trash instead is being collected, analyzed and, where possible, recycled in an initially monthlong experiment ...

The government plans to make it mandatory for supermarkets, convenience stores and drugstores to charge for plastic bags as the country combats marine pollution from plastic waste.

At the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, later this month, Japan aims to forge an agreement on the reduction of plastic waste inflow to the ocean to zero by 2050.

Ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka at the end of June, the government adopts a policy package aimed at reducing plastic waste.

Malaysia, which has become the dumping ground for the world's plastic waste, will send back nonrecyclable plastic scrap to the developed countries that sent it there, its environment minister said on Tuesday. Malaysia last year became the leading alternative destination for plastic scrap after China ...

Municipalities that accept the request will pass on the costs for incineration to companies generating industrial plastic.