Plastic Pollution

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The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) has adopted a resolution calling for a legally binding treaty to combat all levels of plastic pollution on our planet. The assembly took place online in Nairobi from February 28th through March 3rd, 2022. The theme for the assembly was “Strengthening Actions for Nature to…

The world is set to get a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution. Nearly 200 countries have agreed to start negotiations on an international agreement to take action on the “plastic crisis”. United Nations (UN) members are tasked with developing an over-arching framework for reducing plastic waste across the world.…

The proliferation of plastic has grown astronomically, from more than 2 million tons produced in 1950 to nearly 400 million tons produced in 2017, according to the U.N. More than 12 million tons of plastic waste flow into the world's oceans each year, the intergovernmental organization said, adding that that…

Officials from 175 countries agreed yesterday to craft a global treaty over the next two years with the aim of ending plastic pollution. The final treaty could be a game-changer for lands and oceans awash in plastic bottles and packaging. Castoff plastics choke and entangle animals, are ingested by people…

World leaders concluded the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly on Wednesday with a promise to the world: By 2024, delegates will broker a binding, international treaty addressing the full life cycle of plastics — including its production and design. “We made history today,” Espen Barth Eide, Norway’s minister of climate…

Member states at the United Nations Environment Assembly (Unea-5) in Nairobi have unanimously agreed to develop a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, a decision that has been hailed as the most significant environmental multilateral deal since the Paris accord and the Montreal Protocol. The conclusion of Unea 5.2…

Environment "We are making history today." Plastic bottles and other garbage float in Potpecko lake near Priboj. AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File By Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times Service March 2, 2022 With the bang of a gavel made of recycled plastic and a standing ovation, representatives of 175 nations agreed…

Quick view lets you read headlines faster. (Raphael Alves for The Post) The completion of the BR-319 road could vastly increase the Amazon’s destruction by opening it up to violent criminal groups waiting to sweep the region and strip the forest bare. Passengers wear protective masks while travelling on a…

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