Today, plastic used as cheap packaging material is so widespread it is hard to imagine everyday life without it. Unfortunately, the resulting mountains of plastic rubbish are just as everyday.

Last year’s Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima set a target of reducing “additional plastic pollution to zero by 2040.” As a developed country that produces mountains of plastic waste ...

Bottle-tethering is a simple change manufacturers can make to reduce the mountains of plastic waste polluting our beaches, rivers and oceans. The large multinational beverage producers like Coca ...