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This fuel is 50% plastic — and it’s slipping through a loophole in international waste law Environmental groups are concerned that rich countries are exporting plastic to poor countries in the ...
When Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa was a child, her mother sent her to market with a basket woven from grasses. “But now we don’t do ...
TOMORROW, Aug. 5, is the first day of Part 2 of the 5th session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop a Global Plastics Treaty. Will INC-5.2 be able to deliver a deal that ...
Frankie Orona, executive director of the Texas-based Society of Native Nations, has been to every negotiating session.
Social opposition to WTE incineration is currently limited in Indonesia, as the industry is in an elementary phase, but ...
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says discarded plastic leakage into the world’s ...
Scientists have just uncovered a startling truth that Earth has developed two entirely new seasons. These changes could ...
Haze & Trash. And that’s not good news for our planet. These seasons are usually witnessed in different parts of the world, ...
SCIENTISTS have warned that the Earth is now entering a new climate phase, marked by the emergence of two additional ...
Thick smoke from a fire in a pile of debris billowed into the air late Monday at a waste-management facility near the Bay Street bridge. The Victoria Fire ­Department was alerted about 10 p.m. to ...
Plastic pollution has become a serious global health issue, with experts now warning that it is costing the world over $1.5 trillion annually. A new review published in a leading medical journal says ...
The latest figures continue a downward trend in waste generation over the past decade.