Organization reduced 138,162 tonnes of unmanaged plastic waste in 2025 while catalyzing $641 million in third-party funding ...

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste today released its 2025 Progress Report, Strategy in Action, marking its first year of putting Strategy 2030 into practice and highlighting early progress towards ...

Dublin, Jan. 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Plastic Waste Management Market: 2026 Edition" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global plastic waste management market value in ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...

The industry-backed group handled more waste in 2025, though its "valorized" metric extends beyond recycling and its impact ...

If all goes according to plan, by the end of the year, some 170 countries will finalize the world’s first legally binding treaty to curtail plastic pollution. Its success will depend in no small part ...

Since China banned the import of plastic waste in 2018, plastic pollution has been having a growing impact on the people and ...

Rivers aren't just carrying water to the seas—they're moving plastic there by the ton. A new study in Science estimates that ...

In May 2021, a container ship called the X-Press Pearl caught fire off the coast of Sri Lanka and then sank into the Indian Ocean. The vessel was carrying billions of tiny plastic pellets called ...

"It’s a global problem you can see almost anywhere in the world." ...

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. HOUSTON—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that’s failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to ...