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Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has voiced out the call of city governments around the world for the passage of an international treaty that would address plastic pollution.

As plastic waste piles up in the world’s landfills, sewer systems and oceans, the United Nations has set a goal to reduce plastic pollution by 80 percent by…

We abuse plastic, its so cheap: UN Environment chief

Humanity uses and abuses hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic a year because "it's so cheap", despite the huge cost of the pollution it creates, the head of the UN Environment Programme told AFP.…

'We abuse plastic, it's so cheap': UN Environment chief

According to the United Nations' Environment Programme (UNEP), the world is currently embroiled in a ‘plastics pollution crisis’ - but now, according to that very same Environment Programme, it is considered eminently possible that an 80% reduction in this pollution could be achieved before 2040. Click to read more...

The reliance on plastic bottled water has become a necessity due to the deteriorating water infrastructure and pollution problems in predominantly Black U.S. communities, which have lacked access to clean and reliable tap water for decades.

The new report showed that increasing plastic pollution can reduce by 80% by 2040 if countries are committed to observing solution-based practices in addressing plastic concerns. Read here.

 For the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to succeed, urgent action across food systems, finance and ecosystem restoration is essential to address the nature crisis.

By: Paige Bennett While the amount of global plastic pollution is staggering, the United Nations Environment Programme has found that it is still possible