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Nations gather in Geneva to again confront the world’s spiraling plastic pollution crisis

Talks last year in South Korea were supposed to be the final round, but they adjourned in December at an impasse over cutting ...
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Plastic Pollution Devastating Human Health, Costing Trillions

As final global plastics treaty negotiations take place in Geneva, The Lancet elevates plastic pollution as a grave, global ...

Plastic causing "disease and death from infancy to old age" that costs $1.5 trillion a year, report warns

Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 ...
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'Plastic pollution really begins when we're making plastics and extracting oil, gas from the ground'

The 184 countries gathering to forge a landmark treaty on combating plastic pollution are seeking a way forward to tackle a ...
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Plastic pollution is harming our health, not just the planet

Lancet study reveals plastic pollution causes serious human health problems from factory production to waste disposal.

Scientists stunned after making alarming discovery about air inside homes and cars: 'Completely invisible to the naked eye'

The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One on July 30, determined that airborne nanoplastics are a "major and previously underestimated" source of exposure. The findings showed indoor ...

Nations meet in Geneva as plastic pollution crisis nears breaking point

World leaders are in Geneva this week trying to hammer out the world’s first legally binding treaty to tackle the plastic ...