Tag Archives: Plastic pollution

Countries can reduce plastic pollution by 80 percent by 2040 using existing technologies and making major policy changes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report on Monday (15 May). The Kenya-based UN body released its analysis of policy options to tackle the plastic waste crisis two weeks before countries …

Only a bold and ambitious U.N. treaty with sweeping reforms of the entire plastic life cycle can stem the world’s waste crisis, experts said yesterday. Even if measures thought to have the greatest potential for reducing plastic consumption are implemented, they would still fail to prevent a substantial rise in plastics production and use, …

Approximately TL 3.8 billion ($212.14 million) have been saved so far in Turkiye after the government-led initiative recommended charging shoppers TL 0.25 per plastic bag, a practice that became a mandatory regulation in 2019. The application was kicked off by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change in a …

Today more than 70 leading businesses and financial institutions have called for a legally binding UN treaty on plastic pollution in a pre-UNEA statement.  The statement is an indictment on the severity of our current plastic crisis, which merits immediate and concerted global efforts that tackle the problem at its root …