Plastic Waste

Plastic Overshoot Day 2026 arrives, with majority of countries exceeding capacity to manage plastic waste

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Plastic Overshoot Day, the point at which the amount of plastic waste generated in a particular year exceeds the world’s…

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Op-ed by Clemens Feigl, CEO and co-founder, everwave. The global plastic crisis is often framed as a recycling problem. However,…

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More than half (53%) of Gen Z consumers in the US have stopped buying a particular product due to excessive…

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Microplastics, small plastic particles less than five millimetres in size, are affecting the ability of the Earth’s oceans to absorb…

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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has launched a new action plan setting out its agenda to tackle plastic waste and promote…

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The Philippines is responsible for some 356,371 metric tonnes of plastic waste in the planet’s oceans on an annual basis,…

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L’Oréal, the world’s biggest beauty firm, has long prided itself on making the world look good, but as Alexis Perakis-Valat,…

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The newly-appointed co-chairs of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), Tesco CEO Ken Murphy and PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta, have identified…

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With between 19 million and 23 million tonnes of plastic ending up in lakes, rivers and oceans each year, addressing…

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A new initiative launched by the PR3 Global Standards Panel aims to develop a global standard to represent reusable products…