A global study just revealed the world’s biggest known plastic polluters

Sometimes it’s hard to know which companies are behind all this plastic — but now, scientists have identified some of the largest contributors. The largest contributor was Coca-Cola, which accounted ... Read More

Who is causing the world’s plastic problem? This study figured it out

However, the remaining 50% of branded trash items had a story to tell and it wasn’t kind for the world’s biggest brands. Over 50% of the branded plastic trash collected could be linked to just 56 ... Read More

The Plastic Industry’s Latest Delay Tactic: “Plastic Offsets”

A company that uses or produces plastic can purchase credits that correspond to reductions in plastic waste elsewhere, just as drillers can buy up credits that correspond to patches of forest that ... Read More

Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution

Study confirms Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders ... Read More

Just Six Companies Create About a Quarter of Global Plastic Waste, Survey Finds

In other words, if Coca-Cola is producing one-tenth of the world’s plastic, the research predicts that the beverage behemoth is responsible for about a tenth of the identifiable plastic litter on ... Read More

What the Hell Are “Plastic Offsets”?

Plastic is just about everywhere ... Neither Verra nor the World Bank responded to a request for comment on this article in time for publication. Details of what a global plastics treaty might look ... Read More

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The State Department said Russia had used chloropicrin, a poison gas widely used during World War I, against Ukrainian forces, an act that would violate a global ban signed by Moscow. On an island ... Read More

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The government and Google are making their closing arguments in a high-stakes antitrust trial to a federal judge in Washington who must now decide whether the tech giant’s search engine ... Read More

How tiger sharks wearing cameras revealed the world’s largest seagrass ecosystem

The data they collected revealed what is the world’s largest known seagrass ... According to their study, published in 2022, this extends the total known global seagrass coverage by more ... Read More

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The State Department said Russia had used chloropicrin, a poison gas widely used during World War I, against Ukrainian forces, an act that would violate a global ban signed by Moscow. Read More