by Tuyen Tran | Jun 25, 2022 | News
No one wants to see plastic litter in their local park, hiking trail, or on the shoreline where their kids play. That’s why the Government of Canada has moved forward with a comprehensive plan to ban harmful single-use plastics and keep them out of the environment....
by Tuyen Tran | Jun 13, 2022 | News
Fossil fuel investors are adopting a bold new legal tactic in response to efforts to limit global warming: They are going to private international tribunals to argue that climate change policies are illegally cutting into their profits, and they must therefore be...
by Trang To | Jun 1, 2022 | News
Theo các số liệu thống kê thì Việt Nam đang được cho là nước gây ô nhiễm nhựa đại dương đứng thứ 4 thế giới. Kết quả kiểm toán của Liên minh không rác Việt Nam (VZWA) cho thấy trung bình mỗi năm mỗi người dân sử dụng khoảng 500 túi nilon một lần, lượng nhựa tiêu thụ...
by Trang To | May 30, 2022 | News
Typically when people hear about plastic pollution, they might envision seabirds with bellies full of trash or sea turtles with plastic straws in their noses. However, plastic pollution poses another threat that’s invisible to the eye and has important consequences...
by Trang To | May 23, 2022 | News
The fight against plastic pollution calls for a wide-ranging approach. Despite concerted efforts to improve recycling, reduce consumption and reuse materials, the transition to a circular economy has not kept pace with the growth of plastic production. In the search...
by Trang To | May 13, 2022 | News
In our last Waste Trade Bites, we highlighted how OECD countries* continue to send plastic waste to non-OECD countries. This means that richer countries are sending their waste to poorer countries. This month, we look into the waste trade between the second...
