Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director, urges mobilizing finance, policy reform, and circular solutions to tackle plastic ...
Since 1950, humanity has produced more than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic. Most has ended up in landfills or the environment. Now, scientists are working on biological solutions to address the ...
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in partnership with the Technical University of Braunschweig ...
Nepal is turning noodle wrappers into roads. Discover how this plastic-asphalt mix tackles pollution and improves ...
Waste pickers salvage reusable and recyclable materials that have been discarded in streets, landfills and informal dumpsites. They account for 15-20 percent of total recyclables collected annually; ...
The United Nations Development Programme-Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (UNDP-GEF SGP) has said ongoing ...
Small and remote islands are especially vulnerable to plastic pollution. While there is no single solution to turn the tide on plastic pollution for these islands, a combination of technologies and ...
As COP26 leaders gather in Glasgow in two weeks to seek ways to take collective actions that can mitigate the effects of climate change, one important area for them to address is plastic waste ...
A plastic credit is a transferable certificate representing the collection of a specified weight (e.g. one kilogram, one metric ton) of plastic waste recovered or recycled that would otherwise have ...
Global nonprofit organization, The Ocean Cleanup, reinforces its commitment to mitigating ocean-bound plastic waste from the ...