Plastic Pollution

Lake Malawi, one of Africa’s most important freshwater ecosystems and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is under growing threat from plastic pollution — endangering both its extraordinary biodiversity and the communities that depend on it. Home to more than a thousand species of cichlid fish found nowhere else on Earth,…

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As the world desperately searches for a way out of its global climate change and plastic pollution crises, nations are increasingly turning to burning municipal waste to make fuel as a solution to both problems. One approach, dubbed refuse-derived fuel (RDF), processes, packages and burns conglomerated combustible organic waste with…

The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the world’s top decision-making body on the environment, opened its seventh session in Nairobi on Monday, aiming to take action on critical environmental challenges amid deep geopolitical divisions. Global emissions have continued to climb, the world is not on track to meet biodiversity goals and negotiations…

December 5, 2025 1 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm A Garbage Truck of Plastic Will Be Dumped Every Second by 2040 Unless We Act Now, Report Finds An estimated 280 million metric tons of plastic waste will enter the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year…

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(Image credit: MB Photography via Getty Images) The global annual production of plastics rose to 400 million metric tons in 2022 and is projected to double by 2050. Many items produced are single-use, and less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled. In August 2025 more than 2,600 participants from United…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Students Worldwide Invited to Join “Refill, Not Landfill!” Creativity Campaign to Tackle Plastic Pollution London, 22 November 2025 — Today, REUSE Foundation launches Refill, Not Landfill!, a global creativity competition calling on students and young people (aged 16–25) to improve our planet and win real rewards for…

Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality is more complex and far more persistent. Even if we stopped all plastic pollution today, our new research shows that fragments of buoyant plastic would continue to…