Plastic packaging waste from the online retail giant Amazon ballooned to 709 million pounds globally in 2021 — equivalent to the weight of some 70,000 killer whales — according to a new report ...

A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model waste ...

Amazon generated 709 million pounds of plastic waste in 2021, an 18 percent increase from 2020, according to a new report from environmental group Oceana. About 26 million pounds of the company’s ...

Ghana loses an estimated GH₵420 million annually to poor sanitation, according to the World Bank. Flooding in urban areas, largely linked to choked drains and poor waste disposal, continues to ...

It's easy to think of recycling as the solution to plastic pollution, but the vast majority of plastic waste now ends up in landfills, or worse.

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has stated that plastic pollution is fundamentally a waste management challenge, adding that the problem lies not in the material itself but in inadequate ...

The river, which originates in the Shivalik Hills near Kalka and passes through several sectors of Panchkula before entering Mohali and Zirakpur, is losing its natural shape and flow due to alleged il ...