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The EPA is reconsidering whether chemical plastic recycling facilities should be held to the same air pollution standards as ...

Article Summary A bill that cleared the Illinois House would give the state’s EPA emergency rulemaking powers to address plastic ...

A family collect plastic waste on the shore inn Ocean Conservancy's clean up in the Norwegian Northern town of Skjervøy. Plastic bag bans in the U.S. have proven effective in reducing plastic litter ...

Hong Kong has issued 42 fixed penalty notices of HK$2,000 since the first phase of the single-use plastic ban was implemented ...

The Group of Seven (G7) leading Western industrialized nations are supporting an ambitious UN agreement to reduce plastics, a German minister said on Tuesday. "As industrialized countries, we have a ...

The world has a plastic problem and it seems to be getting worse. A study released in late April found that chemicals in plastics were potentially associated with as many as 350,000 heart disease ...

The Government of Liberia, through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and in partnership with the private sector, has commissioned the Duraplast Plastic Recycling Plant and broken ground for ...

Marine environments are transboundary and borderless. Ocean health is increasingly threatened by global climate change, ocean acidification, plastic ...