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March 4, 2024

Venezuela Bids Farewell to Its Last Glacier, Wrapped in Plastic

Venezuela has undertaken the task of covering the remains of its last glacier, La Corona, on Humboldt Peak at 4,900 meters above sea level in the Andes mountains in the southwest of the country, with plastic "blankets" to slow the inevitable end of this icy patch of its mountain landscape and source of legends.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/03/venezuela-bids-farewell-last-glacier-wrapped-plastic/
December 5, 2023

Taking Charge Against Plastic Pollution in India

Aditi Agarwal, a brilliant computer science engineer and Gold Medalist, once thrived in the tech world, contributing to innovations at Microsoft. However, she felt a calling to address real-world challenges, particularly those related to carbon emissions and plastic pollution. In pursuit of a nobler cause, she joined a company called Go Rewise, a youth-led initiative in India dedicated to recycling PET bottles through a circular economy approach.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/12/taking-charge-plastic-pollution-india/
October 20, 2023

Seniors Thriving Through Plastic Waste in Zimbabwe

They do not have a pension nor financial support from families or relatives, but they have themselves. Now they have become collectors of plastic waste, which they turn into products as they battle for survival - earning money from the growing plastic pollution in Zimbabwe.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/10/seniors-thriving-through-plastic-waste-in-zimbabwe/
October 12, 2023

Turning Trash into Education: Lagos Children Benefit from Plastic Waste School

Ijora Badia, a slum in Lagos, was swimming in plastic waste. Now children pay their school fees in plastic bottles, and these are used to build classrooms.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/10/turning-trash-education-lagos-children-benefit-plastic-waste-school/
July 24, 2023

Latin America Must Regulate the Entire Plastic Chain

Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have made progress towards partial regulations to reduce plastic pollution, but the problem is serious and environmental activists are calling for regulations in the entire chain of production, consumption and disposal of plastic waste.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/07/plastic-pollution-latin-america-must-regulate-entire-plastic-chain/
June 19, 2023

Plastic INC-2 finished with a roadmap for INC-3 Of the Global Plastic Treaty

Plastic INC-2 finished up by laying out a roadmap for the time in between meetings leading to INC-3, requiring the creation of a “zero draft” of the new treaty for review at INC-3. Allocating a day to discuss the synthesis report of elements not thought of during INC-2 prior to the meeting. Representing Global Plastic INC-2, Dr. Shahriar Hossain, Secretary General of ESDO provided an overview of the meeting's results today (Thursday) in the media briefing, press briefing organized by Environment and Social Development Organization.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/06/plastic-inc-2-finished-roadmap-inc-3-global-plastic-treaty/
June 16, 2023

Kenya’s Hits and Misses on Journey to Eliminating Plastic Waste

Plastic bags were a part and parcel of life in Kenya. More than 100 million plastic bags were used annually in Kenyan supermarkets alone, with at least 24 million plastic bags discarded every month. Kenya was choking under the weight of plastic bags.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/06/kenyas-hits-and-misses-on-journey-to-eliminating-plastic-waste/
June 5, 2023

World Environment Day – Solutions for Plastic Pollution

It’s time to get together and celebrate the environment! June 5th is the 50th World Environment Day, where each year, the significance of transformative action from across the world is crucial to help people and the planet. This year’s World Environment Day is being hosted by Côte d'Ivoire in partnership with the Netherlands with a theme of ‘Finding Solutions for Plastic Pollution.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/06/world-environment-day-solutions-plastic-pollution/
May 31, 2023

A Global Plastics Treaty Can End the Age of Plastic

Climate-crisis-fuelled storms have hit New Zealand hard this year. In January, we suffered unprecedented extreme weather and flooding, followed by Cyclone Gabrielle in February - the worst storm in 55 years—which triggered a national state of emergency. In total, we had 5.5 times more rain than Auckland summers typically receive.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/05/global-plastics-treaty-can-end-age-plastic/
February 13, 2023

Let’s Eat Plastics!

With one in ten people in the world going hungry, food prices hitting record highs, and the worsening conditions of the environment and climate, it’s time for the world’s population of 8 billion to eat something that is available, abundant and inexpensive: plastics.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/02/lets-eat-plastics/
December 13, 2022

Experts Seek Appropriate Circular Solutions to Plastic Pollution

Experts agree that African economies need to develop innovative approaches to deal with plastic production, which is set to double in 20 years – adversely impacting rural communities.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2022/12/experts-seek-appropriate-circular-solutions-plastic-pollution-africa/
August 5, 2022

The Plastic Crisis Has Deep Corporate Roots: To Protect Our Planet, They Need To Be Exposed

This spring, I taught a new undergraduate course in environmental sociology. Most of my students took the course because they were curious to see what their desire to live more sustainably had to do with sociology.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2022/08/plastic-crisis-deep-corporate-roots-protect-planet-need-exposed/
June 20, 2022

Plastic Pollution Will Kill All of Us!

Have you ever watched the movie “Free Willy”? A young boy, Jesse, had an Orca whale friend named Willy. Jesse freed Willy into the wild ocean believing that it was the best decision to make for his friend. Well, that was a long time ago.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2022/06/plastics-will-kill-us/
March 21, 2022

Planet Earth into Planet Plastics

Planet Earth is increasingly being transformed into planet Plastics. Approximately 400,000,000 metric tons of plastics are produced worldwide annually. Those plastics amount to about 50 kilograms, or 110 pounds, every year for each of the 8 billion human inhabitants living on the unfolding planet Plastics.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2022/03/plastic-pollution-planet-earth-planet-plastics/
March 1, 2022

African Governments Urged to Support Plastic Pollution Solutions

Environmental experts gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, have urged African governments to take advantage of ‘circular plastic opportunities’ to lower greenhouse gas emissions and stop environmental degradation. They were speaking to IPS on the sidelines of the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA).
https://www.ipsnews.net/2022/03/african-governments-urged-support-plastic-pollution-solutions/
February 8, 2022

‘Whole Life Cycle of Plastics’ Approach Could Reduce Pollution – WWF expert

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected plastic waste management, as the world saw a rise in single-use sanitary products, and many cities abandoned their recycling and waste management efforts in the first few months, Eirik Lindebjerg of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) told IPS.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2022/02/whole-life-cycle-plastics-approach-reduce-pollution-wwf-expert/
January 6, 2022

Too Harmful: The March of Salt and Plastics on World Soils

There are more under-reported consequences of human activities unmatching the rhythm of Mother Nature. Such is the case, among many others, of the growing salinisation and ‘plastification’ of the world's soils.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2022/01/harmful-march-salt-plastics-world-soils/
December 9, 2021

Plastic Trash in the Ocean is a Global Problem, and the US is the Top Source

Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic sea ice. And a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine makes clear that the U.S. is a big part of the problem.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/12/plastic-trash-ocean-global-problem-us-top-source/
July 1, 2021

Stopping Marine Plastic Pollution: A Key IUCN Congress Goal

Documented images of albatross chicks and marine turtles dying slow deaths from eating plastic bags and other waste are being seared into our consciences. And yet our mass pollution of Earth’s seas and oceans, fuelled by single-use plastics and throw-away consumerism, just gets worse.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/07/stopping-marine-plastic-pollution-key-iucn-congress-goal/
May 18, 2021

– Jamaica Failing to Cope with Plastic Waste –

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 5 June 2021, drawing from IPS’s bank of features and opinion editorials published this year, we are re-publishing one article a day, for the next two weeks. The original article was published on January 20 2021

https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/05/jamaica-failing-cope-plastic-waste-2/
January 20, 2021

Jamaica Failing to Cope with Plastic Waste

For decades, every time it rains heavily in Jamaica, a daunting deluge of plastic bottles and bags, styrofoam and other garbage trundles its way down a network of countless gullies and streams. If they don’t get snagged somewhere, they end up in the Kingston Harbour or close to the beaches ringing the tourist-heavy North coast.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/01/jamaica-failing-cope-plastic-waste/
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