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Sixteen world leaders have now promised to protect the ocean. Researchers need to work with them to create and improve measurable indicators.

As UN negotiations on eliminating plastic pollution enter a crucial phase, researchers must play their part in designing adequate measurement, monitoring and compliance systems.

*The current fragmented approach taken by individual countries and organizations is insufficient, and a unified global effort is required to effectively tackle the issue. *A gl...

Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, many of those materials, including flexible films, multi-layer materials and a...

Agung Parameswara/Getty Images Kedonganan Beach is seen polluted by wood and plastic trash on January 23, 2021 in Kedonganan, Bali, Indonesia. Brisbane, Australia(CNN) --The wor...

Waste plastic containers became flower POTs, and teachers and students planted hanging plants all over the campus. On the afternoon of September 21, the children of Gangdu Prima...

Recently, the Basel Convention Asia Pacific Regional Center officially issued the "Guidance on Management of Plastic Waste and Recycled Plastics" (" Waste Plastics and Recycled ...

Plastic cycle to promote the development of green transformation Fu Xiangsheng, Vice Chairman, China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation Since the birth of plastics, they...

Plastic, or synthetic resin, is made from petroleum and has been hailed as "one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century." The wide application of this "great invention" h...

On the margins of the 78 th UN General Assembly, Jose W. Fernandez, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, launched the End Plastic Pollution...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned that if nothing is done, global plastic consumption will nearly triple from 460 million tonnes to 1....

China Energy News (10th edition, March 20, 2023)