BANGKOK — Twice a day, sirens sound at Cambodia's Chip Mong Insee cement kiln, warning limestone will soon be blasted from the karst mountain that overlooks the sprawling industrial site. White smoke ...

Each year, the world produces about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste – more than the combined weight of all the people on Earth. Just 9 percent of it is recycled, and one study predicts that global ...

#TurnOffThePlasticTap: A Giant Plastic Tap spewing plastics sourced from Kibera, the largest slum in Africa, at the UNEA 5.2 meeting at the UN Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The installation was ...

Muddy plastic bottles are lodged against fallen trees Aug. 1 after flowing downstream amid the dense foliage in Tisza River near Tiszaroff, Hungary. Countries are meeting in Nairobi to negotiate a ...

Plastic credits aim to drive funds to this problem. They are generated by projects that collect and process waste, usually one tonne per credit. Buyers might then claim that tonne to "offset" or ...