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Nations kicked off a meeting on Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet. It’s the…
Chinese plastics factories left without US raw material when trade relations collapsed earlier this year are holding back from returning to many of those suppliers despite a pause in…
Sarah Paiji Yoo started her career in finance and then founded several start-ups, mostly in the fashion and beauty worlds. But during parental leave after the birth of her first child, she…
Organizers in communities near the petrochemical plants that produce plastics hope that a global treaty to limit plastic waste can reduce the toxic emissions polluting their air and water.…
During last week's "The Future of Plastics: Reducing Waste and Rethinking Materials" event, environmental sustainability and health experts discussed ways to eliminate plastic waste and…
It's no secret that humans produce large amounts of plastic waste globally. But the exact scale of that quantity is often difficult to conceptualize. At "The Future of Plastics: Reducing…
On the heels of global negotiations over a plastic waste treaty, Newsweek Environmental Sustainability and Governance Editor Jeff Young hosted a panel discussion on current efforts to…
