Global public debt is elevated. It is projected to exceed US$100 trillion in 2024 and will rise over the medium term. This chapter shows that risks to the debt outlook are heavily tilted to the upside ...

On a pristine beach in Gippsland, a team of scientists are dumping plastic rubbish. Their littering is extremely precise. When they're done, 14 squares of trash — each exactly 2 square metres ...

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.

Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A proposed Interstate 75 project to build three “lids” over the highway in downtown Detroit would create pedestrian connections that ...

I’ve also taken this news as a reason to coax myself into carrying a reusable coffee mug more often, if only to avoid the black plastic lids on disposable cups—heat plus plastic equals ...

Countries gathered in Colombia to work on a treaty to end plastic pollution must strive for “an ambitious, credible and just” deal that responds to the needs of communities everywhere, including some ...

Nations could agree in December on a world-first treaty to reduce the amount of plastic leaking into the environment which, if nothing is done, is forecast to triple by 2060. Global production of ...

"If you buy parmesan at Costco, I hope you are saving those lids, because they fit exactly on Mason jars," she says. Demonstrating how the plastic lid screws neatly onto a smaller Mason jar, she ...

Polling shows environmental issues are far from the top of voters’ minds this year, and the global plastics crisis rarely gets a mention—unless it’s to defend plastic straws. Nevertheless ...

This has become a local collection point, alongside a red-lid landfill ... “The bins at the waste facilities – and now, thanks to volunteers like Michael and Lisa, some local villages – mean residents ...

Jospong Group aims to transform waste collected by PSP operators into compost fertilizers and plastic bins, with operations expected to begin within six to seven months. The Lagos State Government ...

A woman in Majorca is presumed dead after she passed out in a rubbish container after a night out drinking and was apparently crushed to death before being incinerated after binmen came to empty it.