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Plastics

December 2024

  • Bags of plastic bottles

    Countries call for binding targets to cut plastic production after talks fail

    Group of 85 countries and blocs press for ambition in plastic waste treaty after no agreement was reached in Busan
  • A protester holding a sign reading 'weak treaty is worse than no treaty'

    International talks on curbing plastic pollution fail to reach agreement

    Chair of talks in Busan says progress has been made but ‘a few critical issues’ are unresolved
  • a hand holds a glass filling up with water in a sink

    Environmental groups demand EPA to start monitoring microplastics in water

    Legal petition filed by 170 groups pushes environmental agency to tackle pressing health threat of pollution

November 2024

  • Woman barista serving coffee in takeaway paper disposable cup

    Poor labelling allows ‘massive amounts’ of plastic into Australia’s garden waste, companies warn

  • Plastic wrappers and containers of commercial products at a garbage dump in the Philippines

    Hope of breakthrough at international plastic treaty talks after two-year deadlock

  • In Accra, Ghana, two boys run away from waves crashing on to a beach choked by discarded fast fashion.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    We need to talk about plastic: five everyday items choking the planet

  • Activists with a banner and a large pile of blue-coloured plastic in front of them

    Plastics lobbyists make up biggest group at vital UN treaty talks

  • PFAS and microplastics become more toxic when combined, research shows

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert

  • The Eva Wiseman column
    An open letter to the microplastics living in my body

    Eva Wiseman

  • Bali plastic recycling scheme swamped with garbage

  • How winter makes recycling harder with 40% jump in contamination

  • Global plastic production must be cut to curb pollution, study says

  • Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find

October 2024

  • Overlapping silhouettes of brightly coloured plastic shopping bags

    Sweden abolishes tax on plastic bags despite warnings usage could rise

  • Ciava Dunning and John Eustace at a Re-turn reverse vending machine

    Consumers embrace Ireland’s first bottle deposit return scheme

  • fresh vegetables and fruit such as parsnips, tomatoes,carrots and lettuce all wrapped in plastic packaging

    ‘Shop like our nan!’ Call for supermarket ban on plastic packaging for fresh goods

  • A bottlenose dolphin swims towards the camera with its mouth open

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Microplastics found in dolphin breath for first time – study

  • Australian climate and environment in focus
    Glitter has lost its shine – but scientists may have found a safer substitute

  • British food firms lobbied to defer £1.7bn plastic packaging tax, documents reveal

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