In an annual report to its stakeholders, Singapore-based group says it helped divert and add value to nearly 128,000 metric tons of discarded plastic through 2023. Among cities hosting Alliance to End ...

Alliance to End Plastic Waste says its third such playbook examines cost-effective opportunities for the mechanical recycling of plastic. AEPW says projects that convert mixed plastic scrap into ...

Judith Enck has spent her entire career working to protect public health and the environment. Enck took the helm of New York’s oldest environmental organization, Environmental Advocates NY, soon after ...

(Bloomberg) -- The final round of United Nations-brokered talks aimed at tackling plastic pollution opened in South Korea with deep divisions over the need to stem the rising flood of the material, a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Oil and chemical companies who created a high-profile alliance to end plastic ...

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member states was to ...

A groundbreaking development in materials science offers a potential solution to the planet’s mounting single-use plastic crisis. A new plant-based, waterproof material has been created that could ...

Every year, around 500 million tons of plastic waste is produced globally. That’s almost the total weight of all 8.1 billion people on the planet or the equivalent of 20,000 blue whales in weight.

Düsseldorf, Germany — The Alliance to End Plastic Waste walked the halls of Messe Düsseldorf looking to recruit new members and strengthen partnerships in its drive to advance plastic circularity ...

Have you ever gotten to the end of, say, a jar of peanut butter and wondered if it should go in trash or recycling? If it’s worth rinsing out? And where will it actually end up? Journalist Alexander ...

As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations office ...