At Uline I was able to find an 8″ packing tube that is 72 ... With some tongue depressors, a few toothpicks or plastic straws, rubber bands, and some paper scraps, you can have a homemade harmonica in ...

Uline — the Wisconsin-based office and shipping supply company controlled by Lake Forest billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein — shuttles in its own workers from Mexico. Those staffers are using ...

Black plastic used in kitchen utensils can contain trace chemicals from electronic waste, and single use containers can be especially difficult to recycle. Plastic is being increasingly ...

Talks on the world’s first treaty to tackle plastic pollution will continue in coming months, delegates said. By Hiroko Tabuchi Diplomats at a United Nations conference in Busan, South Korea ...

Delegates from more than 170 countries are working to salvage a treaty that would tackle the growing problem of plastic pollution. By Hiroko Tabuchi A week after Saudi Arabia, the world’s top ...

Countries have deadlocked on a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution, according to The Associated Press. The treaty, with an aim of tackling worldwide plastic pollution, faced a hurdle due to ...

International negotiations to create a legally binding treaty to stem the tide of plastic pollution ended in a stalemate on Monday — pushing talks past their initial deadline and into next year.

The story so far:The 5th Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) on plastic pollution was a conclave of delegations from about 170 countries mandated to establish a legally binding treaty ...

CLIMATEWIRE | BUSAN, South Korea — United Nations members had meant to use this past week to work out how to end plastic pollution. Instead they return to their homes empty-handed from the ...

Delegates from 175 countries spent last week in Busan, South Korea, attempting to negotiate a legally binding treaty to address global plastic pollution, but they failed to bridge significant gaps ...

Recycling plastic isn't working. The figure most often cited is that only nine per cent of the world's plastic has ever been recycled. That statistic is taken from a 2017 study looking at how ...

In Victorian London, among the factories and warehouses of the city’s East End, Alexander Parkes developed the world’s first plastic (he inventively called it Parkesine). Notpla, a startup now ...