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Tobacco conference to weigh up stubbing out cigarette butts
AFP, Published on 14/11/2025
» GENEVA - Next week's global conference on tobacco control will consider what to do about the sheer volume of cigarette butts trashing the planet, with some recommending banning them completely.
World plastic pollution treaty talks collapse with no deal
AFP, Published on 15/08/2025
» GENEVA — Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution fell apart Friday without agreement, as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing scourge.
Last chance for global plastic pollution treaty
AFP, Published on 14/08/2025
» GENEVA - Negotiators trying to secure a global agreement on tackling the scourge of plastic pollution had just hours left to salvage a deal on Thursday after the talks plunged into disarray.
Four days left to square the circle on global plastic pollution treaty
AFP, Published on 11/08/2025
» GENEVA - Countries remained at loggerheads on Monday over how to tackle plastic pollution, with only four days left to craft a landmark global treaty on reining in the ever-growing scourge.
UN plastic pollution treaty talks stalled
AFP, Published on 09/08/2025
» GENEVA - Talks on forging a groundbreaking treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were floundering Saturday, with progress slow and countries heavily at odds over what the proposed agreement should cover.
UN starts new bid to forge plastics treaty amid 'global crisis'
AFP, Published on 05/08/2025
» GENEVA - Nations must resolve the global plastics crisis, the head of UN talks told negotiators from 180 countries gathered in Geneva on Tuesday to forge a landmark treaty on eliminating the life-threatening waste.
What are all these microplastics doing to our brains?
AFP, Published on 01/08/2025
» PARIS - Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics have been detected accumulating in human brains, but there is not yet enough evidence to say whether this is doing us harm, experts have said.
Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours
Reuters, Published on 04/06/2025
» WAKO, Japan - Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife.
Bottled water contains more plastic particles than thought - study
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/01/2024
» NEW YORK - A typical one-litre (33-ounce) bottle of water contains some 240,000 plastic fragments on average, according to a new study. Many of those fragments have historically gone undetected, the researchers determined, suggesting that health concerns linked to plastic pollution may be dramatically underestimated.
PepsiCo sued by New York state over plastic pollution
AFP, Published on 16/11/2023
» NEW YORK - New York state sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, pointing to the soda giant's plastic waste as a scourge of waterways and blasting the company's "misleading" statements on the environment.