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A Texas city has been flooded with mountains of plastic waste that hasn't been touched in a year and a half as the facility continues to fail fire inspections. Wright Waste Management, located 20 miles outside of downtown Houston, has hundreds of pounds of plastic trash just sitting behind a locked gate. The garbage hasn't been touched in more than a year and a half, according to CBS News. To tackle the ongoing plastic pollution problem, the Houston Recycling Collaboration - made up of the City of Houston, ExxonMobil, LyondellBasell, Cyclyx International and FCC Environmental Services - was born. It...

Nearly every country in the world has agreed upon a legally binding framework to reduce the pollution from plastic waste except for the United States, U.N. environmental officials say. An agreement on tracking thousands of types of plastic waste emerged Friday at the end of a two-week meeting of U.N.-backed conventions on plastic waste and toxic, hazardous chemicals. Discarded plastic clutters pristine land, floats in huge masses in oceans and rivers and entangles wildlife, sometimes with deadly results. […] The deal affects products used in a broad array of industries, such as health care, technology, aerospace, fashion, food and beverages....

Shocking study reveals 90% of global plastic waste comes from just TEN rivers in Asia and Africa Study reveals 90 per cent of plastic waste comes from rivers in Asia and Africa Researchers suggest the best way of reducing plastic is by targeting these Bag ban skeptics meanwhile claim that shopping bags mostly end up in landfill University of Sydney professor calls the bag ban a 'low-hanging fruit' issue By Gavin Butler and Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com Published: 12:12 EDT, 2 July 2018 | Updated: 11:01 EDT, 5 July 2018 A shocking study has revealed 90 per cent of the...

Theresa May is to announce a war on plastic waste, with proposed policies including plastics-free aisles in supermarkets and a tax on takeaway containers. The prime minister will set out her ambition to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste within 25 years in a major speech on Thursday in which she will promise the UK will lead internationally on environmental issues. But campaign groups said the aspirations would need to be backed up by legislation. They also warned that leaving the EU risked weakening environmental protections, and called for the government to promise it would not water down green standards in...