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The outlook is grim, but a new report lays out a path to nearly eradicate plastic packaging pollution within the next 15 years.

Plastic pollution from packaging could fall by 97% by 2040 if reuse and return systems are widely adopted, according to research reported by The Guardian.

Currently, the world produces more than 380 million tonnes of plastic a year, with 42 percent of this used for packaging. And the statistics on that plastic post-use are dismal: Only 9 percent of all ...

Communities praised the "team spirit" of volunteers and contractors as the clean up continued at Bognor Regis, Selsey and ...

Microplastics were found in Antarctica’s only native insect, highlighting how plastic pollution has spread into remote land ...

Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations began ...

Mourners gather around the coffin at a performance of artist Anne-Katrin Spiess' "Death by Plastic" in front of South Station. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Environmental activists gathered in front of South ...

There are always a few cloth bags in the trunk of my motorbike, and food containers in my backpack. When a vendor hands me a ...

While it’s generally OK to store food in plastic containers labeled with a 1, 2, 4, or 5, you should try to use glass. Plastic marked with a 3, 6, and 7 should be used minimally around food to limit ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably picked up on a growing anxiety around plastic pollution. What does all this plastic pollution mean for the health of people and the planet? And ...

The Global Mind Project Rapid Report 2025 by Sapien Labs has brought out some glaring and significant relationship between mind health and cognitive wellbeing of people due to consumption of food from ...