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If global healthcare were a country, it would be one of the world’s top five greenhouse gas emitters.
Damaging as it is, food waste has an end point: it decomposes, breaks down, and returns to the soil. Plastic packaging persists indefinitely.
The teen social media ban is just months away, but are blanket bans or severe restrictions good policy? Well, it depends.
A healthy and sustainable planet means supporting action based on scientific evidence, not misinforming people with catchy phrases and political rhetoric.
The reality is that chewing gum is just another form of plastic pollution, but it is not treated as such.
President Donald Trump has ordered his government to stop using paper straws. A better approach is to avoid using single-use products.
To be truly fair, a global treaty on plastic pollution must tackle the inequalities at the heart of current recycling and waste management systems.
Oil-rich nations and the petrochemical industry put up the strongest opposition to a pact.
Right now, nations are negotiating the details of a treaty designed to slash plastic waste. One option on the table: tax new plastic to discourage overproduction.
Plastic pollution in the world’s ecosystems could cost more than $280 trillion in environmental damage. That’s at least $120 trillion higher than the cost of reducing plastic production and pollution.
Global action has always been the missing piece of the picture, as the plastics economy transcends national boundaries. A new treaty could change that.
Are you considering buying fewer plastic bottles in the future? Maybe not, but now that the question has been asked, you’re bound to think about it.
How much microplastic does a city produce? To find out, we looked at Brisbane’s Moreton Bay, where microplastics build up without being washed away
And why wildlife may be the biggest beneficiary.
Better measuring standards, more responsibility for producers and an end to single-use products are all positive steps. But the US has not yet endorsed a cap on plastic production.
We know some marine microbes produce enzymes that can break down certain types of plastics. But new research found areas of high plastic pollution don’t show high concentrations of these enzymes.
A new film charts the voyage of an all-women crew who crossed oceans to sample microplastic pollution.
Negotiations for a global plastic pollution treaty have hit on production limits for the first time.
But how the world will get to zero pollution is still uncertain – and production caps are untested.
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Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs, Wake Forest University
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, Environment, CSIRO
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Research Chair, Indigenous Approaches to Environmental Management, Keele University
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Associate Professor in Arts and Sustainability, University of Portsmouth
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Director - Global Plastics Policy Centre, University of Portsmouth
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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