Jonathan Ernst, the custodian at Needham Public Schools’ Middle School, used to take out nine barrels of trash each lunch ...

The global plastic crisis has long been a ticking time bomb, but now, it seems, a revolution is underway. One company, Corsair Group International, is rewriting the narrative of waste management ...

Israeli company Plastic Back, which chemically reverse-engineers plastic waste for upcycling, has announced a strategic partnership with a US-based recycler to establish the first-of-its-kind ...

For years, local governments and manufacturers have relied on recycling as the answer to keep plastic waste from accumulating. However, despite their efforts to sort and separate recyclables ...

Interestingly, in Bangladesh this amount is even less – about 0.03kg. However, only 1% of plastic waste is mismanaged in the United States and the amount of mismanaged plastic waste in Bangladesh is ...

Thailand has become the latest country to take on the global plastic waste crisis by banning imports of plastic waste. For years, the country had served as a key destination for plastic waste from ...

According to Stanford Researchers, during the holidays, from Thanksgiving to New Year's Eve, Americans create a gigantic mountain of plastic waste ... a man dressed in a red suit with white ...

Vietnam is major importer in global plastic scrap trade It imports more plastic waste than it can recycle Excess plastic is dumped in landfills or released into environment MINH KHAI, Vietnam ...

SEOUL, Nov 22 (Reuters) - South Korea has won international praise for its recycling efforts, but as it prepares to host talks for a global plastic waste agreement, experts say the country's ...

The world discovered that toxic waste was being dumped in Africa and other developing countries in the 1980s, and since 1988, more than a quarter of a billion tons of plastic waste have been ...

Millions of tons of plastic waste invade oceans annually, breaking into microplastics that contaminate food chains. Solutions include switching to reusable items, recycling correctly, and ...

The Plastic Waste Reduction and Recycling Act will guide the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish a plastic waste reduction and recycling programme to improve the ...