Negotiators are today (30 June) preparing to meet in Nairobi for the next round of closed-door Heads of Delegation (HoDs) meetings that will shape the outcome of the Global Plastics Treaty. These meetings matter! While informal in name, they increasingly determine what will and won’t make it into the final agreement. After the turbulence of […]
We are grateful for the additional contributions to this blog from Solomon Njoroge In December, I travelled to Kenya’s Dandora dumpsite outside the capital Nairobi with colleagues from EIA. We were there with a specific purpose – to understand what synthetic textile exports look like at the end of their journey. We did not […]
With the festive season almost upon us, households across the UK are preparing for the usual celebrations, gifts and indulgence. But behind the sparkles lies a growing problem – our reliance on plastics, especially packaging, which surges over the festive period by 30 per cent and which contributes to environmental and human health impacts both […]
The UK produces the second largest amount of plastic waste per capita globally, with an estimated 1.7 billion items of plastic discarded weekly – averaging 90 billion items per person each year. More than half of this material is incinerated, having risen from 46 per cent in 2022 to 58 per cent in 2024. This […]
In recent years, the recycling industry has flourished in the Çukuroava region as a result of the overall multiplication of waste and plastification in our global economy, particularly in the Global North
After nearly two decades of negotiations, the member states of the United Nations last week in New York agreed an historic treaty to protect the high seas