Plastics Pollution

Global Leaders to Meet This Month to Negotiate Production Cuts in Plastics Treaty Berkeley, CA, USA– In advance of the fourth round of United Nations negotiations for an international plastics treaty in Ottawa April 23-29, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBNL)…

“E-waste is a rapidly growing waste stream in the country. From 3.9 kilos per capita in 2019, 537 million kilograms of e-waste were produced in the Philippines, translating to 4.7 kilograms of e-waste per capita in 2022,” said Jam Lorenzo,…

As the third negotiations (INC3) for a global plastics treaty closed earlier this week, civil society organizations from different countries were disappointed over the seeming failure to move closer to a strong and binding global plastic agreement to end plastic…

Civil Society Raises Alarm about Dysfunction in the Treaty Process   Nairobi, Kenya– In the final hours closing a week of negotiations (INC-3- Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee ) for a global plastics treaty, a small group of mostly oil and plastic-producing…

New York State Attorney General Letitia James sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, claiming the corporation had endangered the environment and misled the public regarding its plans to get rid of single-use plastic packaging. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The attorney general’s office found that the food…