A two-day cleaning drive has been conducted on Saint Martin's Island by the Department of Environment and Bangladesh Sustainable Alliance (BSA), collecting 930kg of plastic waste. A nine-month ban ...

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PORT KLANG: The government is considering introducing national-level legislation under the 13th Malaysia Plan (13MP) to tackle plastic waste pollution, said Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad. The Natural ...

KLANG: With each person indiscriminately disposing 2.4kg of plastic trash annually, Malaysia has unwittingly earned infamy by being among the worst countries at managing its plastic waste.

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—Some 5,000 students from this city’s public elementary joined the launching of an initiative aimed at recycling single-use plastic waste into school furniture.

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2.

The move would run counter to a Biden administration push to cut back on single-use plastic, which was considered a milestone ...

lobal efforts backed by the United Nations to work out a treaty for ending plastic pollution stalled last month as the 175 countries attending the meet in South Korea bickered over concerns driven ...

Blueberry farmers in southern Western Australia have switched to compostable cardboard punnets for their blueberries in an effort to reduce the product's plastic waste. After living in England for ...

THE fight against plastic waste ramps up at the start of the year with the launch of two separate movements with similar goals and strategies last January. First, the National Plastic Action ...

environment-friendly alternatives to single-use plastics could eventually solve much of the world’s plastic waste problem — and several options already exist in labs. Plastic pollution harms wildlife, ...