
All eyes on Canada: Top scientists join EIA in urging Canada to support a global plastics treaty
As the world calls out for a global treaty to fight plastic pollution, Canada remains conspicuously silent
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As the world calls out for a global treaty to fight plastic pollution, Canada remains conspicuously silent
The scale of plastic pollution is increasingly impossible to ignore and there’s a rising tide of tide of public opinion wanting to see it tackled
Today (1 October), a UK-wide ban on plastic straws, cotton buds and stirrers came into effect
Grocery retail giant Iceland today (16 September) announced its full and accurate plastic packaging footprint for 2019 as 31,000 tonnes, highlighting concerns about how inaccurate reporting from the UK retail sector is holding back meaningful action on plastic pollution.
Despite contributing less than 1.3 per cent of the mismanaged plastic in the world’s oceans, Pacific Island Countries and Territories are one of its main recipients
Humans produce a staggering 275 million tonnes of plastic waste a year and very little of it is recycled – mostly, it ends up in the environment, polluting land and sea while having a terrible impact on our natural world. Could the solution be a new global treaty to join forces and fight it together? […]