Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. High-income countries have long sent their waste abroad to be thrown away or ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2019, at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, delegates from 187 countries approved ...

Steve Fletcher has received funding from the UN Environment Programme. He is a member of the UN International Resource Panel. The world produces a vast amount of plastic. Global plastic production ...

A Committee of the European Parliament voted today to ban plastic waste exports outside of the European Union: good news for communities around the world impacted by exports of European refuse. To be ...

We’re never going to get an apology from the Liberals for their failed single-use plastics ban — but on Dec. 20, we got the ...

The Recycling Association, Northampton, England, expresses concern over a call for a ban on the exports of plastic packaging for recycling. A report from Policy Connect, titled Plastics Packaging Plan ...

Turkey has been the largest recipient of plastic waste from European countries for five years in a row, according to a new report from Greenpeace Turkey. As the upcoming Global Plastics Treaty (GPT) ...

The federal government has taken the next steps to scrap its looming ban on single-use plastic exports, though the Alberta ...

Soccer superstar Lionel Messi has a secret. Or at least the plastics sustainability group he's associated with, Join the Planet, has something up its sleeve and Messi is set to unveil the undisclosed ...

It argues that the $35-billion-a-year Canadian plastics industry has been hard hit by tariffs and supply chain issues ...

The rapid accumulation of plastic waste is currently posing significant risks for both human health and the environment on ...