The Basel convention guidelines to manage plastic waste miss the point: reducing plastics is the real solution

Rather than prohibiting the use of polybags, India must prepare a wider plastic waste management policy

developed countries are routinely

Bangladesh has clamped a ban on the production and use of polythene bags. This has been done to protect the environment and promote the use of jute products. The flood-prone country's drainage

Over a period of time, composite materials such as plastics wear because of day-to-day usage, creating tiny cracks that continue to grow until the item breaks. But now Scott White, a materials

South Africa has banned the use of thin plastic bags. And retailers

A detector that can detect small quantities of explosive material mixed in seawater has been devised by M Sailor and his colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, USA. The device is