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Plastics overwhelmingly end up in the ocean or at landfill sites.Credit: Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket/GettyIn August, the world should have been celebrating the first global agreement to end…

When the United Nations negotiations on plastic pollution in Geneva, Switzerland, collapsed in August, observers declared the outcome an abject failure and the process broken. Earlier…

Global consumption of plastics is on the rise, but only a small percentage of plastic waste is recycled. Credit: Justin Sullivan/GettyCrucial negotiations on what would have…

August 19, 20254 min readPlastics Started as a Sustainability Solution. What Went Wrong?Synthetic polymers were supposed to free us from the limitations of our natural resources.…

Volunteer beach cleaners are finding more vapes than ever before as plastic pollution chokes Britain’s coastline.The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) on Wednesday launches its annual beach…

Good morning. Not only does plastic waste clog up waterways, beaches and strangle sea life, it also causes havoc inside the human body. Tiny fragments –…