This article is authored by Suhas Dixit, CEO, APChemi & Sunita Mohanty, advisor, Primus Partners.

If all goes according to plan, by the end of the year, some 170 countries will finalize the world’s first legally binding treaty to curtail plastic pollution. Its success will depend in no small part ...

As global concern over plastic pollution intensifies, a growing share of the problem is tied not to where waste is discarded, ...

TOPSHOT - A worker walks in front of packed recyclable plastic bottles at La Sylvia recycling center in Barva, province of Heredia, Costa Rica on June 20, 2018. Costa Rica discards 564 tons of plastic ...

In May 2021, a container ship called the X-Press Pearl caught fire off the coast of Sri Lanka and then sank into the Indian Ocean. The vessel was carrying billions of tiny plastic pellets called ...

HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that's failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to gain state approval to store plastic, workers quickly closed a ...

Despite a bevy of regulations on waste management, bans on single-use plastic and mandates for sewage and effluent treatment, plastic and medical contaminants c ...

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News. HOUSTON—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business that’s failed three fire safety inspections and has yet to ...