The Kenya Daily Nation reports that plastic toys widely sold in the country harbour alarming levels of toxic chemicals, a new study has revealed, raising red flag about the safety…
Local community groups and international experts criticised the French food company’s project for its toxic operations and failure to contribute meaningfully to resolving plastic pollution. Denpasar, Indonesia, 12 December 2024…
“Just wait till next year!” goes the slogan often attributed to disappointed sports fans. Those same words could equally apply to proponents of an internationally binding U.N. agreement to phase…
IPEN Co-chair Pamela Miller speaks with San Francisco Bay Area public media on the Plastics Treaty talks following INC-5. Listen to the full interview on KALW Public Media.
From water bottles and food wrappers to microplastic in the air, plastic and its chemical components are nearly impossible to avoid today. Researchers have now measured the extent to which…
IPEN Executive Director Bjorn Beeler talks with BNN/Bloomberg News about the Plastics Treaty and obstacles to plastic recycling.
You might have missed it amid the noise of the Trump transition and the sound of the European and Japanese auto industries collapsing. But the failure of an obscure United…
What was supposed to be the final round of United Nations negotiations for a global plastics treaty ended without an agreement on Sunday, as delegates failed to reconcile opposing views…
Negotiations to produce a legally binding treaty to curb the global explosion of plastic pollution fell short on Sunday as efforts to limit the production of fossil fuel-based plastics supported…
A week of tense negotiations to draft a legally binding treaty combating global plastic pollution ended in failure on Sunday night in Busan, South Korea, marking only the latest setback…
