Plastic Waste

Zero Plastic Club extends to New York with plastic-free event

4 weeks ago4 weeks ago5 mins

DJ and producer BLOND:ISH has hosted a club night in New York free from single-use plastic, to mark the US…

1 month ago1 month ago4 mins

Packaging design changes could help improve recycling outcomes, reduce plastic pollution, and support waste sector workers in low- and middle-income…

2 months ago2 months ago4 mins

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

6 months ago3 months ago9 mins

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

10 months ago10 months ago3 mins

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

10 months ago10 months ago3 mins

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

12 months ago1 year ago3 mins

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

1 year ago8 months ago3 mins

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

1 year ago7 months ago15 mins

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

1 year ago10 months ago4 mins

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