Using a long-handled net, Ronnel Narvas scoops up discarded plastic soft drink bottles, shopping bags and palm-sized sachets as he wades through a foul-smelling tributary in the Philippine capital ...

Long one of the world's top sources of ocean plastic, the Philippines is hoping new legislation requiring big companies to pay for waste solutions will help clean up its act. Last year, its "Extended ...

It has always perplexed me that single-use plastic constitutes about 40% of global plastic production, yet conversations ...

PLASTIC Free July is a global movement. It was started in 2011 by Australia-based Plastic Free Foundation and has since then ...

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines’ plastic crisis is shaped not only by how much plastic is consumed, but by how poorly much of that waste is managed after use. The country generates an estimated ...

Of the 400-million-plus tons of plastic that the world produces each year, more than a third is only used once before it’s thrown out. Each minute, by some estimates, the equivalent of a garbage truck ...