NAIROBI: Global efforts to craft the world’s first treaty to end plastic pollution are under mounting strain, with ...

(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 ...

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

After the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an investigation into reports of leaks, breakages and other quality issues with China-made plastic syringes, New Jersey-based medical technology ...

Since China’s 2018 ban on the import of most plastic waste for recycling, Japan has faced a major challenge. Prior to the ban, the country was shipping nearly half of its roughly 1.5 million tonnes of ...

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 ...

FDA’s ongoing investigation into plastic syringes made in China and distributed in the United States has revealed “more widespread” quality issues than originally known, the agency said in an update ...

The FDA last week re-upped its recommendations that healthcare providers avoid using plastic syringes made in China wherever possible, while it continues to investigate growing quality concerns. In ...

The People’s Republic of China is imposing provisional duties on imports of industrial plastics from the US, EU, Japan, and Taiwan following a months-long anti-dumping investigation. Starting January ...

A recent study that recommended toxic chemicals in black plastic products be immediately thrown away included a math error that significantly overstated the risks of ...