Plastic Pollution

The world is drowning in plastic. This much we know. It seems that every day greets us with fresh evidence that there is no escaping the plastic prison humanity has built for itself. In the final summation, plastic, for all its uses and abuses, is a pollutant. But there are…

Nearly every day since July 31, Benjamin Von Wong has been surrounding his 20-foot-tall art installation, “The Thinker’s Burden,” with a little more plastic trash. By Thursday, parts of it could be totally obscured beneath a mountain of garbage in front of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Von Wong,…

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GENEVA: Talks on forging a landmark treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were stumbling Saturday, with progress slow and countries wildly at odds on how far the proposed agreement should go. The negotiations, which opened on Tuesday, have four working days left to strike a legally-binding instrument that…

GENEVA - Talks on forging a groundbreaking treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were floundering on Aug 9, with progress slow and countries wildly at odds on what the proposed agreement should cover. The negotiations, which opened on Aug 5, have four working days left to strike a…

Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These six graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and why delegates from more than 170 countries have committed to negotiating a global, legally binding treaty…

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Diplomats from 184 countries have kicked off what is billed as the final round of negotiations aimed at securing a global UN pact to prevent the world from “drowning in plastic pollution”. Over the next ten days in Geneva, Switzerland, they will be trying to thrash out a legally binding…

Nearly 180 countries, including Australia, have kicked off 10 days of talks aimed at hammering out a landmark global treaty on combating the scourge of plastic pollution. "We are facing a global crisis," Ecuadoran diplomat Luis Vayas Valdivieso, who is chairing the talks process, said at the start of 10…