The sustainability of any solution, programme, or policy must be scientifically proven, socially acceptable, and economically viable. If conceived like the sustainable plastic waste management policy ...

For those of you over a certain age, you may remember this now famous line from the movie, The Graduate, delivered by the character Mr. McGuire to Benjamin Braddock, played by the actor Justin Hoffman ...

During 2020, the world threw away over 250 million tonnes of plastic. A fifth of this plastic pollution was dumped straight into the environment, as many nations struggle to keep up with the mounting ...

What if we turned the world’s growing wastelands of disused plastics into a new kind of sustainable building? The disposal of plastics is a highly visible global problem – from the highest mountains ...

When you put plastic packaging into your recycling bin, it might be a surprise to learn that the least likely thing to happen is that it will be recycled in the UK. Instead, a huge amount of plastic ...

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 with ...

In the global fight against climate change, plastics have emerged as both a symbol of modern convenience and an environmental challenge.Thailand, which produces millions of tonnes of plastic waste ...

Plastic has become deeply embedded in our modern lives. From packaging to electronics and even medicine, it is so widely used that imagining life without it feels almost impossible. In Malaysia, where ...

According to the report, there is a need for localised policies to tackle plastic waste in various cities across India As per a report titled, Assessment and Characterisation of Plastic Waste ...

Each year, the world produces about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste – more than the combined weight of all the people on Earth. Just 9 percent of it is recycled, and one study predicts that global ...

Almost 80 per cent of the world's population live in areas that have already exceeded plastic waste management capacity, new research finds Almost a third of plastic waste generated in 2025 will be ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As Robert Reed examines a mountain of trash piled three storeys high, a thin white plastic bag catches his eye.