plastic

Unilever’s global initiative Transform is working to build a platform that will help enterprises prosper during and after the pandemic. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Unilever’s plastic playbook

The consumer giant vowed to ditch plastic sachets, single-use packaging that’s swamping poor countries with waste. Privately, it fought to keep using them

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Budget

BNCA concerned over proposed vat withdrawal on polythene

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Budget

Greens fear more use of plastic as 5% duty withdrawal proposed

The indiscriminate use of plastic has serious adverse effects on the environment, human health and wildlife. Photo: Reuters
Environment

Global plastic waste on track to triple by 2060

The indiscriminate use of plastic has serious adverse effects on the environment, human health and wildlife. Photo: Reuters
Districts

Barishal city turning plastic waste into resources

A general view of West New Territories Landfill during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Hong Kong, China, April 11, 2022. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
World+Biz

Hong Kong zero-Covid policies create mountains of plastic waste

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Bangladesh

Plastic makers demand tax cut for better competitiveness

A Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 16 November 2018. File Photo: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Environment

Civil society, NGOs for banning plastic, groundwater use in Rohingya camp

A delegate poses for a photograph near a 30-foot monument dubbed "turn off the plastic tap" by Canadian activist and artist Benjamin von Wong, made with plastic waste, at the venue of the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5), at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi
Analysis

Big Oil's plastic boom threatens UN's 'historic' pollution pact

A woman picks up plastic cups along the riverbank of Pasig river, in Manila, Philippines, June 10, 2021. Photo :Reuters
Environment

75% of people want single-use plastics banned, global survey finds

The indiscriminate use of plastic has serious adverse effects on the environment, human health and wildlife. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Plastic, chemical pollution beyond planet's safe limit: study

he trash was reportedly loaded onto trucks and transported to a landfill site. Picture: Collected from BBC
World+Biz

World must work together to tackle plastic ocean threat: WWF

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Brands

Elephant Combo: A dream toy of every child