Global food and packaging companies, including Nestle , PepsiCo and Unilever have vowed to collaborate on cutting plastic use ...

Negotiations on a treaty to limit global plastic waste ended last week not with a bang, but with a whimper. In the early hours of Aug. 15, after two compromise draft texts were rejected by various ...

The latest round of negotiations for a UN global plastics treaty has ended without a deal. After more than three years of talks, deep divisions remain. Agreement is only marginally closer than before ...

The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks twice imploding without agreement, and the chair suddenly resigning this ...

This week's Material Insights features Assistant Managing Editor Steve Toloken, who breaks down the collapse of the global plastics treaty talks in Geneva. After nearly three years of negotiations, ...

Bengt Rittri, founder and CEO of Bluewater, has made sustainability his life mission With billions of single-use plastics still polluting the planet, Bluewater pledges to innovate solutions and urges ...

GENEVA (AP) — As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United ...

Plastic items are seen next to "The Thinker's Burden," a sculpture by Benjamin Von Wong, in Geneva, Aug. 4, 2025 (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) ...

The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks twice imploding without agreement, and the chair suddenly resigning this ...