Campaigners are blaming developed countries for capitulating at the last minute to pressure from fossil fuel and industry lobbyists, and slowing progress towards the first…
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Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years
Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic – to reduce it by 40% in 15 years – in…
View More Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years‘Privileged access’: pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third
The number of fossil fuel and petrochemical industry lobbyists has increased by more than a third at UN talks to agree the first global treaty…
View More ‘Privileged access’: pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a thirdWorld must come together to tackle plastic pollution, says chair of UN talks
As UN talks begin to agree the first global treaty to reduce soaring plastic waste, the chair of the meetings has said he is confident…
View More World must come together to tackle plastic pollution, says chair of UN talksCan a Waitrose shopper’s gaze boost loose produce and cut plastic waste?
With thick black frames and hidden cameras, the glasses look designed for espionage or the metaverse but instead the eye-tracking headgear is being deployed to…
View More Can a Waitrose shopper’s gaze boost loose produce and cut plastic waste?UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant
The UK government is providing a €700m (£600m) guarantee for the billionaire Jim Ratcliffe to build the biggest petrochemical plant in Europe in 30 years…
View More UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plantThe nurdle hunters: is combing UK beaches for tiny bits of plastic a waste of time?
Squatting in the strandline as a storm brewed on the horizon, I combed through the debris with tweezers. I spotted my first nurdle almost immediately.…
View More The nurdle hunters: is combing UK beaches for tiny bits of plastic a waste of time?Microplastics found in clouds could affect weather and global temperatures
Air, water, soil, food and even blood – microplastics have found their way virtually everywhere on Earth, and now that list includes clouds. Bits of…
View More Microplastics found in clouds could affect weather and global temperatures‘We can’t carry on’: the godfather of microplastics on how to stop them
In September 1993, during a beach clean on the Isle of Man, Richard Thompson noticed thousands of multicoloured fragments at his feet, looking like sand.…
View More ‘We can’t carry on’: the godfather of microplastics on how to stop themCountries meet in Kenya to thrash out global plastic pollution treaty
Government delegations will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, to hammer out details of what could be the first global treaty to tackle the plastic pollution crisis.…
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