Ottawa, Nov. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to Towards Packaging, a sister firm of Precedence Research, global plastics production and trade have expanded dramatically over the past decades, ...

June 25 (UPI) --As global concern over plastic pollution intensifies, a growing share of the problem is tied not to where waste is discarded, but where it begins -- with the United States emerging as ...

Australian soft plastics recycling companies are warning that the industry is at a breaking point because too much waste is being sent overseas, pushing up the price locally. A ban on exporting ...

“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have ...

Seattle, WA, November 12, 2020 – Recently tabulated trade statistics from the United States Commerce Department show that the US continues to export about 28,000 metric tons per month of its plastic ...

For the first nine months of 2024, recovered plastic exports remained steady year over year, marking a change from multiple years of annual declines in export volume. | Qingqing/Shutterstock For the ...

Most plastic is a product of oil and gas, so addressing Asia’s plastic pollution problem is not just a question of waste management, but of climate change, too. The largest plastic manufacturers are ...

Japan's June exports of plastic waste, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) flakes and other PET waste increased on the month but fell from a year earlier, according to data from the Japan Containers and ...

June 25 (UPI) --As global concern over plastic pollution intensifies, a growing share of the problem is tied not to where waste is discarded, but where it begins -- with the United States emerging as ...