HARARE — At Mbare marketplace, a major trading hub in Zimbabwe's capital city, plastic bags are everywhere. Vendors stack ...

Less than a tenth of the 400 million tonnes of plastic produced around the world is manufactured from recycled materials, a study shows. Researchers who tracked the global plastics supply chain also ...

These costs for plastic produced in 2040 will rise to US$7.1 trillion unless urgent action is taken The lifetime cost to society, the environment and the economy of plastic produced in 2019 alone has ...

Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations began ...

According to the official OECD estimates on global plastic pollution, out of all the plastic waste generated per annum, only 9% is recycled. The rest contaminates water bodies, soil, the air we ...