Every year, the world produces a staggering 400 million tons of plastic. This sheer volume of production is difficult to visualize, but imagine a line of garbage trucks, bumper to bumper ...

The miracle material has made modern life possible. But more than 40 percent of it is used just once, and it’s choking our waterways. Just after dawn in Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India ...

BC's Philip Landrigan, M.D., and the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health present a sweeping new report showing plastic as a hazard at every stage of its life cycle Philip Landrigan ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. After importing nearly half of the planet’s plastic recyclables for three decades, China barred the import of most ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Evalyne Ndirangu, IAEA Department of Nuclear Sciences and ...

Ranjit Baxi introduced the concept of Global Recycling Day during his inaugural speech as president at the BIR's 2015 Dubai Convention. He expressed his vision and commitment to recycling. The first ...

Andrea Bassetti of ICIS unpacks trade shifts, recycling policy gaps, and the future of plastics in North America.

What happens to that single-use plastic bottle after you, a conscientious citizen, place it in a recycling bin? Most people, ...

Thank you for carefully rinsing, sorting, and recycling your plastic containers — but plastic is trash and trying to recycle it is futile, Greenpeace said in a bombshell October 2022 report.

Plastic isn’t just a problem in supermarkets. It’s universal on farms, too – but now farmers are trying to ditch it in favour of environmentally-friendly alternatives. The word ‘plastic ...

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced Monday a new round of talks on a global treaty to limit plastic waste after the last negotiations in December ended in stalemate.