Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (2024) Published: 2 May 2026 Report Plastic production and pollution have a negative effect on the environment and climate change. Using detailed global and regional datasets coupled with socioeconomic data, machine learning was employed to predict that annual mismanaged plastic waste will nearly double by 2050. Annual GHG emissions from plastic are projected to grow by 37%. Four simulated treaty policies could reduce mismanaged plastic waste by 91% and GHG emissions by one-third.
How Russian fuel feeds the world of plastic: a study of the correlation between fossil fuels and plastic (2025) Published: 16 February 2026 Study Plastic production remains the most resource-intensive area of petrochemicals. This puts a serious strain on the economy and the environment, and indirectly finances military conflicts, including Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Thus, the modern global energy system is at a turning point.
The Entangled Fates of Plastics and Climate Change (2025) Published: 8 July 2025 Policy Brief The oil, gas, and petrochemical industry wields substantial power in both the climate and plastics treaty negotiations, and has used that power to stymie progress in both. Rather than repeat the failures of the climate negotiations, plastics negotiators should seek to create a “plastics club” for ambitious action.
Fracking for Plastics: Exposing the Supply Chain Behind the Global Plastic Crisis (2025) Published: 18 May 2025 Report, Interactive Map A new investigation exposes the toxic supply chain fueling global plastic production, shedding new light on the critical players driving the plastics and climate crises. The findings were used to build the Fracked Plastics Map, an interactive tool that traces the connections between more than 25 major consumer brands and petrochemicals sourced from fracking.
The Great Global Nurdle Hunt 2024 - Report Published: 24 October 2024 Report The report presents numbers and figures of the 2024 Great Global Nurdle Hunt. Nurdles are plastic pellets produced from fossil fuels, recycled or biobased material. Each year, due to mismanagement across the entire supply chain and a lack of regulation, over 445,000 t of nurdles spill into the environment around the world, making them a major source of primary microplastic pollution.
Taking the Shine off SHEIN: A business model based on hazardous chemicals and environmental destruction (2023) Published: 26 June 2024 Report The Chinese online fashion brand SHEIN has promoted fast fashion to ultra fast fashion. It’s built on the exploitation of the environment and people, relying on the lack of enforcement of protection regulations for the environment as well as workers and consumers.
Crude Couture: Fashion Brands’ Continued Links to Russian Oil (2023) Published: 26 June 2024 Report This investigation underscores the pivotal role the fashion industry plays in perpetuating fossil fuel dependency and signals a concerning lack of action to break ties with Russian oil – through which the fashion brands are indirectly funding petrochemical expansion and the war in Ukraine.
Poisoned Gifts - From donations to the dumpsite: textiles waste disguised as second-hand clothes exported to East Africa (2022) Published: 26 June 2024 Report Global fashion brands are promoting circularity, but in reality that's still a myth. Nowhere is the failure of fast fashion more visible than in the countries where many of these cheap clothes end up: on huge dump sites, burnt on open fires, along riverbeds and washed out into the sea, with severe consequences for people and the planet.
Official Trailer: Big Oil's Last Lifeline - Hip Hop Caucus Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Video Big Oil's Last Lifeline (2022) A 3-part docuseries sounding the alarm on environmental racism and the petrochemical industry. Its toxic trail puts people in the Southern US at risk of losing their lives for the greed and profit of a dirty business.
The Plastic Atlas: Facts & Figures about the World of Synthetic Polymers - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Video Plastic Atlas (2021) The Plastic Atlas has the hard facts, data and figures to prove that the story of plastic that industry is telling us is a myth.