Poor waste management is deeply connected to climate change, plastic pollution and global nutrient imbalances globally.

The New York Times NYT has published an article suggesting that plastic waste is, or should be, a high-priority for poor African nations, and that the best way to deal with it is by not having ...

Plastic waste hurts poor communities the most, ... Today we are producing about 300 million tons of plastic waste every year: equal to the weight of the entire human population. ...

Plastic Bank was founded in 2013 and launched on the ground operations in 2014 in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, where close to 60% of the population lives under the poverty ...

Alexander Clapp, author of new nonfiction book 'Waste Wars,' tracks the world-wide blackmarket trade of our garbage ...

In 2016 the U.S. accounted for just 4% of the global population, but 17% of all plastic waste. Skip to main content. WBUR. 90.0 WBUR ... the sometimes-poor working conditions in sorting facilities ...

If we are to build a greener, fairer and more equal society in the wake of COVID-19, it’s time for rich countries to end their practice of dumping plastic waste in developing countries. This not ...

A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model ...

Poor plastic waste management is an issue of concern in low-income countries like Malawi. According to the World Bank, only 4% of waste is recycled in these low-income countries. The bank warns that, ...

The plastic industry says recycling is the solution to reducing waste. But in Thailand, where much of the world’s trash ends up, it’s created a new set of problems.

Plastic has become deeply embedded in our modern lives. From packaging to electronics and even medicine, it is so widely used that imagining life without it feels almost impossible. In Malaysia, where ...