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Plastics overwhelmingly end up in the ocean or at landfill sites.Credit: Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket/GettyIn August, the world should have been celebrating the first global agreement to end…

Microplastics have been found almost everywhere: in blood, placentas, lungs – even the human brain. One study estimated our cerebral organs alone may contain 5g of…

Global consumption of plastics is on the rise, but only a small percentage of plastic waste is recycled. Credit: Justin Sullivan/GettyCrucial negotiations on what would have…

Britain’s exports of plastic waste to developing countries have soared by 84% in the first half of this year compared with last year, according to an…

The chair of stalled UN plastics treaty talks, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, is preparing to step down, after accounts of behind-the-scenes pressure from the United Nations Environment…

A petition by a schoolgirl on a remote island calling on the Scottish government to ban all single-use plastics has received more than 26,000 signatures and…

The surge in the use of disposable face masks during the Covid pandemic has left a chemical timebomb that could harm humans, animals and the environment,…

Hugo Keane’s investigation into polyester began at home. He had just started year 7 but, thanks to Covid, he was stuck knocking about at home in…

Plastics recycling rates in Australia have flatlined as the amount of waste continues to grow, the latest government data reveals.Australians produced 3.2m tonnes of plastic waste…

After three years of negotiating, talks over a global plastics treaty came to an end in Geneva last week with no agreement in place. So why…