The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $225,000 in new grants to advance environmental justice in Arizona. The grants...
With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution, declaring access to a clean,...
The bipartisan companion bill was introduced to the US Senate in March und was passed at the end of July. Its aim is to to establish a...
As per the ministry notification issued last year, 19 single use plastic items from straws and plastic cutlery to plastic sticks for ear...
The waste problem in Brazil is real and the country is aware of it. Latin America’s largest country recently launched a series of ambitious...
The court ruled that Congress, not the EPA, has the authority to create a system of cap-and-trade regulations to limit emissions from power...
The Canadian government presented a timeline to phase out the production as well as the sale of single-use plastic and hard to recycle...
The members of the European Parliament (EP) have approved including municipal incinerators in the scope of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme...
Parties to the Basel Convention at their 15th meeting (COP15) held in Geneva agreed by consensus to the "Swiss-Ghana Amendments,"...
Batteries should only be disposed of separately in the collection boxes provided, either in shops or at the rubbish tip, the Association of...
Veolia reports that 77% of British retail and manufacturing businesses are still unaware of the impending Plastic Packaging Tax.
ISRI joins more than 20 industry and environmental groups that expressed support for the legislation, which establishes a pilot rural...
As ISWA recognises the need for and supports the endeavour to prepare an international agreement on monitoring, controlling, mitigating,...
UN member states agreed to establish an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee with the mandate to forge an international legally binding...
The United Nations is preparing a binding treaty on plastics. A draft is before the Environment Assembly in Nairobi that would mean major...
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