Overseas, the Covid-19 economic slowdown and home lockdowns have enabled the most sudden and dramatic improvement in environmental measures like air and water pollution in modern history.
There may be a small answer to one of the biggest problems on the planet.
Tuvalu is making significant progress on improving its waste management, the International Institute for Sustainable Development says. According to the Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Hub, the progress is outlined in the country's latest annual review of its waste management.
Many plastic items that Americans put in their recycling bins aren’t being recycled at all, according to a major new survey of hundreds of recycling facilities across the US.
The cost of keeping Samoa clean in terms of contractors going around to collect rubbish from in front of residential homes is $4 million.The figure was revealed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (M.N.R.E.), Ulu Bismarck Crawley, and M.N.R.E.'s Pri
China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems.
The ban, which was to start 30 January, has been put back to 30 June. A senior officer of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment confirmed the ban had been postponed to allow local companies to get rid of styrofoam products already in stock...
IUCN's Climate Change Mitigation and Risk Reduction (CCMRR) Programme recently hosted three half a day pre- inception consultation meetings in Suva, Fiji; Apia, Samoa and in Port Vila, Vanuatu to introduce the Plastic Waste Free Islands (PWFI) project to a number of key stakeholders in the month
The Energy Department is launching a program to partner with the private sector in developing technologies to recycle plastic and keep waste out of rivers, oceans, and landfills.
Coca-Cola has been named the world’s largest polluter of plastics for the second year in a row, according to an audit conducted by Break Free From Plastic. The environmental justice group asked 72,541 volunteers in 51 countries to collect plastic waste.
