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Despite Friday’s outcome, the plastics treaty does not yet appear to be dead. Virtually all countries expressed an interest in continued negotiations—the European Union delegate Jessika…

Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours of Friday…

By ensuring the collapse of UN talks seeking the first legally binding agreement on tackling plastic pollution, blockers in Geneva have failed the next generation. Most…

Once again negotiators will leave the plastic summit this week without a treaty, having failed to reach agreement in what was supposed to have been the…

Talks between nations to hammer out a plastics treaty to end plastic pollution continued behind closed doors in Geneva on Thursday, the final day of negotiations,…

When a Liberian-flagged container ship, the MSC Elsa 3, capsized and sank 13 miles off the coast of Kerala, in India, on 25 May, a state-wide…

Good morning. Not only does plastic waste clog up waterways, beaches and strangle sea life, it also causes havoc inside the human body. Tiny fragments –…

The 8 billion tons of plastic waste that have amassed on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report…

Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”,…

The beginning: a single threadAsingleThread-2 Illustration: Claire Harrup/The GuardianAsingleThread-Pink Illustration: Claire Harrup/The GuardianThe story starts with a single thread of polyester, dislodged from the weave of…