29 Apr 2024 --- A study published in Science Advances finds 56 global companies are responsible for more than half of all branded plastic pollution. Scientists from universities in the US, Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand, Estonia, Chile, Sweden, Canada and the UK used a five-year (2018–2022) analysis based on Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) brand audit data from 1,576 audit events across 84 countries.