Future global treaty on plastics must cut production to ease pollution, some states say
Washington DC, USReuters Countries have begun to discuss a future global plastics treaty which would cut pollution, some hope entirely by 2040, at UN talks in Uruguay this week, with many states calling for curbs on plastic production as a way to reach that goal. United Nations members agreed in March on a resolution to […]
Essay: Four reasons to be hopeful about the planned global plastics treaty
As negotiations kick off, ELIZABETH KIRK, a professor of international environmental law, looks – in an article published on The Conversation – at what the world-first treaty for ending plastic pollution will actually mean…
TACKLING PLASTIC POLLUTION: TURNING WASTE INTO BIOPLASTICS, MEXICO STRIKES GREEN GOLD
SOPHIE HARES, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how scientists in Mexico are developing alternative, greener plastics…
European efforts to curb plastic litter in oceans are working – researchers
Thomson Reuters Foundation The number of plastic bags found in the seas around Britain has significantly dropped since 2010 as European governments crack down on their use, researchers said on Thursday. The percentage of trawls by fishermen that catch at least one plastic bag in the greater North Sea, off Britain’s east coast, more than […]