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7 May 2022, 12:49 pm
This book examines the relevant international legal framework applying to land-based sources of plastic pollution. [read post]
21 Feb 2022, 5:27 pm
The Outlook identifies four key levers for bending the plastics curve: stronger support for recycled (secondary) plastics markets; policies to boost technological innovation in plastics; more ambitious domestic policy measures; and greater international co-operation. [read post]
7 Mar 2022, 8:27 am
Last week nearly 200 countries agreed in principle to an international plastic treaty that aims to tackle global plastic pollution, but the devil is in the details. [read post]
21 Nov 2023, 7:23 pm
Morath is a professor of law and associate dean for international programs at Wake Forest University – The Hill: “There is no shortage of news about plastic’s ubiquity or its harms. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 9:03 pm
Despite this delay in federal plastic regulation in the United States, several efforts are underway to try to regulate plastic bags at the international level. [read post]
18 Jul 2018, 7:00 am
Marriott International plans to remove plastic straws and drink stirrers from all of its 6,500 hotels and resorts worldwide by next year. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 9:03 pm
An industry-governed contribution bears several advantages over alternatives, such as international treaties or government taxes or regulations, Forrest argues. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 6:21 am
At an international level, in December 2017, the United Nations Environment Assembly, the governing body of the United Nations Environmental Programme (“UNEP”), published a Draft Resolution on Marine Litter and Microplastics. [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 5:30 pm
This observed acceleration of plastic densities in the world’s oceans, also reported for beaches around the globe, demands urgent international policy interventions. [read post]
30 Sep 2021, 8:51 am
Because the plastics tax is presumably intended to internalize externalities associated with plastics production in addition to simply raising revenue, the previous effort to tax plastics, the REDUCE Act, contained a number of exclusions. [read post]
22 Nov 2020, 6:53 pm
Once plastic enters the environment, its impacts are long lasting: in 2019, the Center for International Environmental Law found that “Roughly two-thirds of all plastic ever produced has been released into the environment and remain there in some form—as debris in the oceans, as micro- or nanoparticles in air and agricultural soils, as microfibers in water supplies, or as microparticles in the human body. [read post]
15 May 2023, 11:47 am
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged countries involved in ongoing negotiations for an international anti-plastic pollution treaty to address the role of fossil fuels in plastic production. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 9:05 pm
Alaska Native villages lack territorial jurisdiction but retain jurisdiction over internal domestic affairs. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 1:12 pm
The results of this analysis will be presented at the International Summit on Plastic Pollution, From Research to Action: Responding to Plastic Pollution through Science, to be held at Long Island University in New York City on April 5-6, 2022. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 10:31 am
According to a recent news article from International Business Times, Tyson Foods, one of the world’s largest producers of poultry products, recently recalled over 130,000 pounds of fully cooked chicken nuggets because they believe these nuggets may contain hard plastic. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 7:15 am
“[I]t will be essential to ensure that the doors to public participation remain open and that human rights and social and environmental justice remain foundational to the treaty,” said Jane Patton, Plastics & Petrochemicals Campaign Manager for the Center for International Environmental Law. [read post]
24 Oct 2019, 4:41 pm
After Coca-Cola, the next biggest contributors to the plastic pollution in the audit were Nestle, PepsiCo, Mondelez International — purveyor of snack brands like Oreo, Ritz, Nabisco, and Nutter Butter — and Unilever. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 4:14 pm
The international team then tweaked the enzyme to see how it had evolved, but tests showed they had inadvertently made the molecule even better at breaking down the PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic used for soft drink bottles. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 3:29 pm
Single-use plastics recently gained infamy after a video showing the removal of a single-use-plastic straw from the nostril of a turtle gained international attention. [read post]
12 May 2019, 10:50 am
“Today’s decision demonstrates that countries are finally catching up with the urgency and magnitude of the plastic pollution issue and shows what ambitious international leadership looks like,” says David Azoulay, Environmental Health Director at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). [read post]
