We should ask ourselves how we would structure the value chain today if we were starting from scratch, rather than how we can ...

The company said it will shift its focus to plastic recycling, days after a global plastics treaty conference failed to ...

Countries negotiating a global treaty to address plastic pollution have failed to reach an agreement in Busan.

The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) is disappointed over the lack of a formal agreement after the latest round of ...

Coke is also changing its recycling goal. In 2018, Coca-Cola announced that by 2030 it wanted to recycle the plastic equivalent of every bottle it put out into the world. That’s been reduced to ...

The failure of recent global talks in Busan, South Korea, to produce a landmark treaty to combat plastic pollution, has ...

More than 100 countries want the treaty to limit production as well as tackle cleanup and recycling, which is essential to ...

Above: WWF's Erin Simon speaks at the global plastic pollution summit in Busan, Korea, in November. The final week of ...

For almost two years, countries have been trying to negotiate a United Nations treaty to rein in plastic pollution. The talks were supposed to end with an agreement, but that didn't happen.

It is recognised as the most significant environmental cause of disease and premature deaths globally, surpassing even ...

The week-long talks, known as INC-5, ended in a deadlock over objections to the inclusion of cuts to plastic production in so-called ambition countries.

The fifth round of negotiations on a landmark UN plastics treaty, has ended without an agreement, marking a major setback in ...