Brand names can be used to hold plastic companies accountable for their items found
polluting the environment. We used data from a 5-year (2018–2022) worldwide (84 …

The ecological and societal impacts of plastics production, use, and waste are a complex
global challenge. Management strategies to mitigate the impacts of plastics, such as …

As one of the flagship amendments to the Plastic Waste Management (PWM) Rules, 2021,
the pan-Indian ban on a group of single-use plastic products (SUPPs) introduced in mid …

Exporting waste for recycling to destinations without sound recycling capacity raises
questions of fairness and sustainability. Due to insufficient recycling infrastructure in Europe …

This chapter reviews plastic pollution in the context of the Global South with a particular
focus on the social and behavioral science literature. We set the context by describing the …

Oceans in the colonial Anthropocene are haunted by the brutal racial logics of slavery,
indenture, plunder, violence, death, and multispecies extinction. This brutality manifested …

As the global plastics pollution crisis grows in severity and complexity, diverse solutions are
being proposed across the public and private sectors. Notably, multinational corporations …

Plastics and plastic waste have emerged as one of the major challenges of the Anthropence,
a so-called “wicked problem” complicated by a myriad of political, economic, cultural, and …

At the energy-chemistry nexus, key molecules include carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrogen (H2),
methane (CH4), and ammonia (NH3). The position of these four molecules and that of the …

While calls for Indigenous participation in plastics pollution governance are increasingly
common, exactly what participation means remains unclear. This review investigates how …