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Dubai Can Initiative Cuts Single-Use Plastic Water Bottle Usage by Almost 18mn

Dubai Can, the citywide sustainability initiative, has successfully seen a reduction in the usage of an equivalent of almost 18 million 500ml single-use plastic...

Opinion: Why is India weakening the Global Plastics Treaty?

“Humanity has exceeded a planetary boundary related to environmental pollutants including plastics” — announced an international team of researchers in 2022. The scientists who...

Dia Mirza opens up against plastic pollution with reenactment video

The video of Bollywood actor Dia Mirza reenacting the lyrics of the song 'Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh' to speak against plastic pollution is going...

England to ban some single-use plastic items

England will ban a range of single-use plastic items such as cutlery, plates and bowls from October in an effort to limit soaring plastic...

Nestlé Pakistan replaces 400 million plastic straws with paper straws

Nestlé Pakistan became the first food and beverage company in Pakistan to introduce paper straws across its ready-to-drink products

Private equity’s falling out of love with plastic packaging

Private equity investment in the global plastic packaging sector has already slowed in recent years, with the combined deal values in 2016-2020, of $1.3 billion

WATCH: Giant ‘vacuum cleaner’ removes plastic from nature reserve

Engineers have built a giant ‘vacuum cleaner’ to rid a Belgian nature reserve of millions of pieces of plastic litter too small to collect by hand

Starbucks eyes plant-based food, reusable packaging

Starbucks aims to add more plant-based food and drinks to its menu, make its packaging reusable and invest in better waste-management

Dead deer found with 7kg of plastic in stomach

A wild deer was found dead after swallowing 7 kilograms (15 pounds) of plastic bags and other trash in Thailand,

‘Ghost’ fishing gear: the trash haunting ocean wildlife

Abandoned fishing objects make up a significant volume of plastic pollution in seas and oceans.

Retailers to charge for plastic bags from 2020

Retailers including supermarkets and convenience stores will be required to charge for plastic bags from next summer

Jellyfish thrive despite man-made disruption of the oceans

Jellyfish have been on Earth longer than we have -- they are believed to have roamed the oceans for nearly 600 million years.

Supermarkets test plastic-free zones

Retailers in Britain -- where even bunches of bananas are often sealed in plastic to keep them fresh and undamaged during long-distance shipping -- are gradually making plastic-free zones

Nine deer dead after eating plastic

Nine deer have died after swallowing plastic bags in Japan's Nara Park, a wildlife group said on Wednesday

Southeast Asian nations, among worst ocean polluters

Environmentalists commend initiatives by some major retailers to cut back on plastic bags, but say most businesses will not take action unless there is a stricter push from policy initiatives

You may be eating a credit card’s worth of plastic each week: study

The study was commissioned by environmental charity WWF International

Ban approved on single use plastics

European lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday for an EU-wide ban on single-use plastic products such as the straws, cutlery and cotton buds that are clogging the world's ocean

Plastic finds second life in street artist’s work

Colourful animals have popped up in Paris as part of a new exhibition by Portuguese street artist Bordalo II,

Big brands revisit the milkman model to cut plastic pollution

Called Loop and announced at the World Economic Forum, it delivers products such as orange juice, shampoo and laundry detergent in reusable glass and metal bottles to shopper doorsteps and retrieves the empties for cleaning and reuse

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