"Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time." Coca-Cola launches global initiative to ...

They lighten every car and jumbo jet today, saving fuel—and pollution ... plastic waste was generated by just five Asian countries: China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.

There’s even been fatalities or disasters associated with plastic waste; in Sri Lanka, for example,” said Dr Malcolm ... In addition to the deeply detrimental impact that plastic pollution is having ...

The sinking of the MV X-Press Pearl off Sri Lanka’s coast released 1,680 metric tons of plastic nurdles ... an industrial and chemical pollution specialist at the Centre for Environmental ...

such as the X-Press Pearl disaster in 2021 off Sri Lanka, when a cargo ship caught fire and spilled billions of plastic pellets into the Indian Ocean. The pollution killed marine life and ...