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Plastic Pollution

Boom in burning waste for fuel puts human health and environment at risk Plastic Pollution

Boom in burning waste for fuel puts human health and environment at risk

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…
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December 10, 2025
Global leaders seek action on environment, despite divide Plastic Pollution

Global leaders seek action on environment, despite divide

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…
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December 8, 2025
Plastic Pollution Will More than Double by 2040, Yielding a Garbage Truck’s Worth of Waste Each Second Plastic Pollution

Plastic Pollution Will More than Double by 2040, Yielding a Garbage Truck’s Worth of Waste Each Second

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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December 5, 2025
Students Worldwide Invited to Join “Refill, Not Landfill!” Creativity Campaign to Tackle Plastic Pollution Plastic Pollution

Students Worldwide Invited to Join “Refill, Not Landfill!” Creativity Campaign to Tackle Plastic Pollution

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…
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November 22, 2025
Scientists have puzzled over what happens to plastic as it breaks down in the ocean – our new study helps explain the mystery Plastic Pollution

Scientists have puzzled over what happens to plastic as it breaks down in the ocean – our new study helps explain the mystery

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…
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October 24, 2025
State targets plastic pollution with lawsuit against bag makers Plastic Pollution

State targets plastic pollution with lawsuit against bag makers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California ramped up its efforts to curb plastic pollution Friday — suing three plastic-bag makers, alleging the companies falsely claimed their products were recyclable. State Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, said companies Novolex Holdings, Inteplast Group and Mettler Packaging violated a state law passed in…
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October 18, 2025