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The stakes are high, given that annual plastics production has more than doubled in 20 years — and is on track to triple within four decades. the french president emmanuel macron warned that plastic pollution is a time bomb. translation: today there is not a single place on the planet that. has escaped plastic pollution. and this pollution is accelerating. if we do nothing, we will generate triple the amount of today's plastic waste by 2060. plastic pollution is therefore a ticking time bomb. as well as a plague that has already commenced. it is our duty to end it as quickly as possible. to ...

Has already commenced. it is our duty to end it as quickly as possible. to explain the scale of the plastic pollution problem, and the ways some companies are trying to tackle it, here's our newsroom reporter naomi choy smith. we produce more than 460 million tonnes of plastic wastes every year. that's according to the un. and that is a figure that are set to triple over the next four decades. now, only 9% of that plastic is actually recycled. the vast majority of it is used once or twice and then discarded. most of that in low income nations. and one fifth of that ends up being dumped or burn...

Air pollution is a growing concern in urban areas worldwide, with dire consequences for human health and the environment. Click to read more...

When Arun Krishnamurthy was a child in the 1990s, his middle-class suburb in Chennai, India, was only half built. Krishnamurthy, now 36, was lucky. Since 2000, India’s population has grown by nearly a third, and its economy has more than quintupled.

Century still do not have. now the biden administration is attempting to address this pollution problem. i'm going to speak one on one with the chief of the environmental protection agency. that's coming up. but first here's a look at some other events we're watching today.