HARARE — At Mbare marketplace, a major trading hub in Zimbabwe's capital city, plastic bags are everywhere. Vendors stack ...

China’s “toughest ever” drive to reduce single-use plastics has been underway for two years. In January 2020, the country announced bans or restrictions on the production or sale of products including ...

SINGAPORE, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Polluting single-use plastic production rose globally by 6 million tonnes per year from 2019 to 2021 despite tougher worldwide regulations, with producers making "little ...

(Bloomberg) -- A surge of Chinese plastic supply is threatening to overflow in the face of weak domestic demand, morphing into a fresh trade challenge for the rest of the world. Parts of the country’s ...

Plastics, detergents, adhesives, solvents and synthetic rubbers could be produced without need for petroleum, study finds.

For the most part, the story of the tariff war between China and the United States has been that, by ratcheting up the tariffs, China has far more to lose because it imports much less from the United ...

Photo Illustration by Zak Bickel/The New York Times; Photographs via Getty; Unsplash The things the U.S. imports a lot, the things it doesn’t and everything in between. By Francesca Paris Tariffs are ...

This article is part of the Back to school special. GENEVA — When yet another round of global plastic treaty talks fell apart in Switzerland last month, many negotiators and civil society groups were ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Restaurants, e-commerce platforms and delivery firms will be forced to report their utilisation of single-use plastics to the authorities and also submit formal recycling plans, ...