Japan has developed a new kind of shopping bag that looks ordinary but behaves very differently from plastic. These bags are ...

UTSUNOMIYA—The death of a friend during childhood continues to haunt Wakana Takahashi, but the tragedy sparked her interest in Japan’s worst pollution cases and pushed her toward a career related to ...

In 2022 the UN Environment Programme’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution has argued for a new international treaty on plastic pollution. It is common knowledge that plastics ...

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