Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bird floats among discarded plastic bottles in the Sava River in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2024. (Darko Vojinovic / Associated Press) ...

Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution will draw to a close Friday, as nations remain deadlocked over whether to tackle the exponential growth of plastic production. A new draft of ...

GENEVA (AP) — Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution are discussing a new draft of the text Wednesday that would not limit plastic production or address ...

Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second. Plastic is everywhere in modern life and has essential, lifesaving ...

Many measures have been initiated to reduce plastic pollution in Norway. Only a few of them will lead to extensive change and cleanup, a new study shows. Every year, many millions of tons of plastic ...

A global treaty to end plastic pollution may be in jeopardy, negotiators and environmentalists said Thursday, with new signs that countries may not be able to agree on production cuts. A document ...

The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty. According to representatives from five environmental ...

Republican lawmakers in Washington are attacking President Joe Biden's administration for its support for resin production caps in a global plastics treaty, saying it would hurt the U.S. economy and ...

Ahead of the next round of United Nations negotiations for a legally binding plastics treaty in Geneva, or INC-5.2, an international consortium of scientists recently published a peer-reviewed ...

Silica microspheres trap pigments in plastic, allowing repeated recycling at room temperature without quality loss or energy ...