Increasing recycling rates requires a concerted effort from governments, businesses, and individuals to improve systems and promote responsible consumption. An estimated 12% of global plastic ...

If business continues as usual, global production of primary plastic is forecast to almost triple, reaching 1100 million tonnes by 2050. Despite recycling efforts, less than 10 per cent of the world’s ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste ... 6.3 billion tons never made it to a recycling bin—a figure that stunned ...

After importing nearly half of the planet’s plastic recyclables for three decades ... Meanwhile, in developed countries many domestic recycling programs have been halted because of the cost.

Currently, plastic recycling is a failure ... That won’t bring about change overnight, but facts are stubborn things and they don’t go away. Given time, I suspect that the Global Plastic Treaty will ...

Thank you for carefully rinsing, sorting, and recycling your plastic containers ... right side of history" and support a proposed Global Plastics Treaty "that will finally end the age of ...

more financing for waste management systems and increased recycling. But one policy approach emerged as most critical: a reduction in the total amount of global plastic production. That was the ...