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Some high-profile plastics shareholder resolutions received less support this year at public companies, amid a pushback against environmental, social and governance measures.

McDonald’s currently complies with a new French law requiring all on-site dining to utilize reusable packaging.

The government has announced that the Environment Secretary yesterday started talks on a global treaty aiming to end plastic pollution by 2040.

Environment Secretary highlights how the UK will champion ending plastic pollution by 2040

The development of reliability theory has led to the setting of tasks requiring consideration of the efficiency and functional safety of technical objects of transport over the life cycle. The paper demonstrates the possibility of using the universal laws of elastic wave theory to describe natural phenomena occurring in complex dynamic systems, on the examples of solving issues arising in the interaction of rolling stock and the railway track. The accounting of the time component and the ability...

The shale gas boom has made virgin plastic, a waste byproduct of oil and gas production, cheap and abundant.

Truly global participation in the process will create more than just a Paris Agreement for plastics

We can cut annual flow of plastic into the ocean by 80% in the next 20 years. The technology and will is there, but one important piece of the puzzle is missing — and the UN is hopeful they can pull it together.

We can cut annual flow of plastic into the ocean by 80% in the next 20 years. The technology and will is there, but one important piece of the puzzle is missing — and the UN is hopeful they can pull it together.

Four other large companies — Keurig Dr Pepper, Mondelez International, PepsiCo, and Target Corp. — agreed to virgin plastic reductions earlier this year.