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Plastic leaves its traces in unexpected places — like your dentist’s office Media News Group18:27 8-Sept-26
Yesterday
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans/NPDES Permits: Illinois House Bill 4418 Requires Application to Plastic Pellets… JD Supra17:23 8-Sept-26
Activist finds all tested Delhi plastic bags violate 120-micron requirement The Times of India16:32 8-Sept-26
Plastic pollution has reached every part of the ocean – global leaders call meeting Energy Live News16:07 8-Sept-26
Pa. fines Shell $15 million for air pollution from its Beaver County plastics plant PublicSource15:52 8-Sept-26
Surface forces : 35 Experiments at Sea StrategyPage.com11:37 8-Sept-26
Plastic Energy Founder Carlos Monreal returns as CEO Interplas Insights11:29 8-Sept-26
Plastic Overshoot Day | Push for waste strategy overhaul Packaging News11:05 8-Sept-26
In the 1980s, Rutgers researcher Thomas Nosker mixed milk jugs with discarded Big Mac… The Times of India08:53 8-Sept-26
Coca-Cola says recycling initiatives support 13,000 Nigerians The Punch03:53 8-Sept-26
In the last 7 days
Labor's broken promise on plastic recycling ABC Online20:04 7-Sept-26
At 18, this Irish student invented plant-based plastic that doesn't just biodegrade; it is designed to break down… The Economic Times18:34 7-Sept-26
Scientists Discover Soil Bacteria Enzyme that Breaks Down Both Plastic and Antibiotics Sci.News17:51 7-Sept-26
Together let’s rejuvenate ‘untidy’ ocean tides The Hindu Business Line15:29 7-Sept-26
Plastic Overshoot Day: 72m tonnes of plastic waste set to leak letsrecycle.com13:59 7-Sept-26
USKOK findings reveal microplastic pollution concerns at waste sites in Croatia Croatia Week13:34 7-Sept-26
Plastic Overshoot Day: One-third of global plastic waste won’t be properly managed in 2026 edie.net12:35 7-Sept-26
72 million tonnes of plastic waste will be polluted this year, research finds Circular Online11:28 7-Sept-26
OPINION: ‘UK is at a critical turning point for plastic packaging recycling’ letsrecycle.com11:10 7-Sept-26
Crediting temporarily bound carbon reduces emissions and costs in integrated production of EU refineries Nature.com10:53 7-Sept-26
Climate crisis: Europe’s aid cuts threaten adaptation programmes and efforts to tackle plastic pollution The International Bar Association10:13 7-Sept-26
Plastics Companies Are Writing Lesson Plans. What Could Go Wrong? WIRED10:11 7-Sept-26
N.S. fishing gear washing ashore on remote North Atlantic islands CBC.ca10:07 7-Sept-26
Plastic waste: FG mandates manufacturers, importers to take responsibility Vanguard, Nigeria09:28 7-Sept-26
Wildfires, heatwaves endanger air quality, health: UN Gulf News06:19 7-Sept-26
Lorenza Romanese: "The ambition should not be to make everything compostable" Waste Management World Magazine23:01 6-Sept-26
Teen Discovers Coconut Fungi Can Filter Plastic and Sunscreen From Sea—And Wins Science Fair Good News Network22:44 6-Sept-26
More Evidence Ties Microplastics to Lung Cancer Medpage Today19:26 6-Sept-26
21-year-old cleans up Indian river; gets intl job offer Gulf News10:42 6-Sept-26
Single-use plastic waste pollutes Ariyankuppam River and Thengaithittu backwaters The Hindu10:06 6-Sept-26
Plastic Overshoot Day 2026 arrives, with majority of countries exceeding capacity to manage… Sustainability Online08:03 6-Sept-26
Humans will dump 72,000,000 tonnes of plastic waste into nature in 2026 Metro.co.uk06:59 6-Sept-26
Litter reduction on Sandakphu trekking route, garbage collected by guides drops to 160 kilos from last year’s 372 kilos The Telegraph, Calcutta05:14 6-Sept-26
France looks to river barriers to cut plastic pollution The Connexion05:03 6-Sept-26
24_Ban_H_Garbage Burning The Times of India01:35 6-Sept-26
My 3D printer was burning filament on oversized purge towers, and one slicer change saved me hundreds a year XDA-Developers20:35 5-Sept-26
Summer of action: Top 5 plastic pollution initiative highlights Kauai Now16:09 5-Sept-26
How Do You Turn Plastic Waste Into an Edible Cookie? Scientists Found a Way Food & Wine Magazine15:05 5-Sept-26
DSCC plastic waste sale generates Tk one crore in two years Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha14:02 5-Sept-26
Nres projects world will generate 230 million metric tonnes of plastic waste by 2040 The Sun Daily10:43 5-Sept-26
Malaysia may see 230 million tonnes of plastic waste by 2040, with 23 million entering waterways yearly, says ministry Malay Mail10:24 5-Sept-26
Microplastics transport toxins and antibiotic resistance across ecosystems News-Medical.Net05:01 5-Sept-26
Want a solution to plastic pollution? Scientists urge UN to require global reporting Phys.org23:49 4-Sept-26
Meet Moroti Adegboyega, the 17-Year-Old Who Wants to Clean up Plastic by Making It Magnetic ZME Science16:46 4-Sept-26
Tiny pellets, big spills, bigger problems U.S. PIRG16:38 4-Sept-26
What do fixed bottle tops achieve? Adam Smith Institute (Weblog)12:10 4-Sept-26
NESREA Seeks Stakeholders’ Action to Tackle Plastic Waste Pollution The Authority12:00 4-Sept-26
Reusable food and drink packaging: The case for glass edie.net11:42 4-Sept-26
Patients diagnosed with lung cancer found to have more microplastic in their lungs ecancer11:01 4-Sept-26
Nigeria Tightens War on Plastic Waste, Makes Producers Responsible for End-of-Life Products ThisDay Live09:01 4-Sept-26
Photo Competition: EU Green Diplomacy Week 2026 European External Action Service08:39 4-Sept-26
This Hong Kong Future Lab Was Made Using Recycled Plastic Bottles Green Queen06:03 4-Sept-26
Researchers find greater microplastic burden in lung cancer patients News-Medical.Net05:07 4-Sept-26
From plastic bottles to food: SIU research draws global attention KFVS1204:10 4-Sept-26
Microplastics found in higher levels in lung cancer patients Air Quality News03:34 4-Sept-26
Turning waste into food: SIU researchers work to turn plastic water bottle into cookie KFVS1203:10 4-Sept-26
Used needles found among 1000kg of rubbish cleared from Vatuwaqa creek Fiji Sun02:25 4-Sept-26
Scientists make 'unavoidable' microplastic discovery in lung cancer patients Manchester Evening News23:35 3-Sept-26
Your Home is Crawling With Microplastics Nautilus21:08 3-Sept-26
Nigeria’s dual challenge of water access and plastic pollution African Press Organization21:01 3-Sept-26
China Installing Huge Facility That Turns Plastic Waste Into Jet Fuel Futurism19:43 3-Sept-26
Tangled Plastic, Fishing Gear Found in Pilot Whales ENN18:54 3-Sept-26
Horizon – News and Trends in Sustainability Law - August 2026 JD Supra17:06 3-Sept-26
Frontline Bathrooms Removes Plastic from Aqua Glass Packaging Insight DIY16:27 3-Sept-26
Human fat, blood dumped into sinks, toilets at Seoul clinics Inquirer.Net14:48 3-Sept-26
Who’s behind the secretive multimillion-dollar campaign to crush California’s landmark plastics law? Los Angeles Times13:04 3-Sept-26
New plastics recycling regulations are driving growth in Latin America: Recupac and Lindner are … Waste Management World Magazine12:10 3-Sept-26
Seoul clinics caught dumping human fat, blood down sinks and toilets Korea JoongAng Daily10:33 3-Sept-26
In 2007, American Peace Corps volunteer Laura Kutner began collecting plastic bottles in… The Times of India09:38 3-Sept-26
In June 1998, the US Army turned 13,000 pounds of mixed plastic into a 25-foot Fort Leonard… The Times of India08:47 3-Sept-26
In 2027 festivals must go plastic free, ticket-holders demand Environment Journal08:10 3-Sept-26
Japan research team develops AI system to detect plastic litter on seabed The Mainichi08:03 3-Sept-26
Japanese researchers develop AI system to detect marine plastic waste Anadolu Agency07:44 3-Sept-26
Pollution port boss calls for nurdle regulations BBC06:24 3-Sept-26
Organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean Denounce the Exclusion of Civil Society from Negotiations on the… Break Free From Plastic06:05 3-Sept-26
Two plastic waste warehouses destroyed in Shah Alam fire, premises had no fire safety system Malay Mail02:37 3-Sept-26
Georgia Tech Opens Trash Lab to Turn Campus Waste Into New Possibilities Newswise (Press Release)14:29 2-Sept-26
Food giants back ‘EU first’ flexible plastic digital watermark trials for flexible plastic Packaging News13:00 2-Sept-26
Why plastics decoration belongs closer to the moulding press Design Solutions13:00 2-Sept-26
Türkiye strengthens plastic waste strategy with national workshop Daily Sabah12:18 2-Sept-26
Mondelēz, PepsiCo and pladis join digital watermark trial for flexible food packaging recycling New Food12:16 2-Sept-26
Power Knot Installs Multiple LFC biodigesters aboard Fred. Olsen Cruise Line PR Newswire (Press Release)12:04 2-Sept-26
In 2022, Hawaii used 195,000 plastic bottles to rebuild a road. Engineers found an alternative use for recycling… The Economic Times11:11 2-Sept-26
Not-so-simple recycling? Complex rules still leave room for confusion Envirotec09:52 2-Sept-26
Festival beach clean-up by volunteers West Somerset Free Press09:42 2-Sept-26
Gen Z is using ‘polyester’ as an insult. It’s actually a throwback. Grist Magazine09:37 2-Sept-26
A Columbia team counted about 240,000 plastic particles in a litre of bottled water and put their mass at roughly 10… Silicon Canals06:43 2-Sept-26
UK Festival Season Generates 105 Million Single-Use Plastic Waste – Xampla European Supermarket Magazine06:03 2-Sept-26
Upcycling pet waste into porous activated carbon via Koh activation using microwave-assisted and conventional direct… Nature.com00:58 2-Sept-26
In the last month
Ppcb pushes for plastic waste segregation, launches ‘Punjab Plastic Champions’ prog The Times of India20:12 1-Sept-26
Oregon’s Recycling Modernization Act upheld as constitutional U.S. PIRG19:57 1-Sept-26
The Plastics Industry Is Writing School Lesson Plans to Push Plastics on Kids Truthout19:51 1-Sept-26
Govt begins fines for littering & plastic ban violations The Times of India19:35 1-Sept-26
Ocean Conservancy Celebrates Federal Court Upholding Oregon's Producer… WebWire19:00 1-Sept-26
AG Davenport Renews Call for EPA Action on Microplastics New Jersey Attorney General (Press Release)17:27 1-Sept-26
Recycled plastics market to hit $11.71 billion by 2031 The Hindu Business Line17:03 1-Sept-26
Maryland community pushes for answers about plastic recycling plant The Real News Network15:30 1-Sept-26
TaipeiPLAS 2026 unveils diverse events highlighting industry trends, innovation and sustainability Interplas Insights15:19 1-Sept-26
UK falling behind on tackling microplastics as MPs warn pollution could threaten food security University of Portsmouth14:49 1-Sept-26
West Bengal imposes Rs 100 fine for spitting, Rs 200 for public urination India Today14:09 1-Sept-26
Birdhill technology being used by Scottish Water The Nenagh Guardian14:00 1-Sept-26
HMRC sets mass-balance requirements for chemically recycled plastic Circular Online13:46 1-Sept-26
The microplastics lurking in your takeaway coffee: Single-use cups release millions of… MailOnline13:45 1-Sept-26
Valpak research ‘helps councils understand the flexible plastics challenge’ Packaging News12:35 1-Sept-26
West Bengal govt tightens screws on littering, open defecation The Times of India12:27 1-Sept-26
Wastewater treatment risks shifting microplastics problem from water to land, APPG report warns Envirotec12:19 1-Sept-26
Bengal’s cleanliness crackdown begins: Check new fines for spitting, littering Indian Express11:07 1-Sept-26
Retailers call for reform as packaging charges double to £100m Retail Sector10:50 1-Sept-26
Microplastics could threaten UK food security, report warns University of East London10:37 1-Sept-26
When plastic companies write the lesson plans Grist Magazine09:45 1-Sept-26
Could Plastic-Eating Robots Clean Up Our Oceans? Reasons to be Cheerful09:14 1-Sept-26
Microplastics are polluting everything Energy Live News08:04 1-Sept-26
Over three quarters of UK festival goers believe events should use plastic-free packaging Sustainability Online07:45 1-Sept-26
Over 500 volunteers join Rawal Lake cleanup campaign The Nation05:55 1-Sept-26
Even small amounts of ocean plastic can affect petrel chicks Phys.org03:07 1-Sept-26

      
            
      
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