plastic pollution, Tag

Plastic pollution is a scourge upon the planet - and it turns out that it's reached the deepest ocean trench on the earth. While studying man-made debris in the deep sea, scientists recently discovered a large number of single-use...

People are getting creative with plastic waste around the world, and now Ecobricks wants to utilize plastic for building. They encourage people to pack soft plastic garbage into plastic bottles to make blocks that can create...

It's not just plastic bottles and plastic bags clogging waterways — but wet wipes too, and the United Kingdom government aims to take action and banish the wipes in a plastic waste crackdown...

Even the Arctic can't escape plastic pollution. Scientists gathered ice samples from five distinct regions in the Arctic Ocean, and those samples contained sometimes over 12,000 microplastic particles per liter of ice - a...

SaltWater Brewery in South Florida is the first brewery to test biodegradable six-pack rings. Designed by start-up E6PR, the Eco Six-Pack Ring is made from wheat and barley, which allows it to be composted. And best of all?...

Could we solve the plastic pollution crisis with a mutant enzyme? At a trash dump in 2016, Japanese researchers discovered the first known bacterium that had evolved to consume plastic...

"Plastic: it's what's for dinner." Plastics are polluting the world's waterways - and they're also found in abundance in the average person's gut. Researchers in the United Kingdom have determined that the average British...

Scientists recently found that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - now three times the size of France - is showing signs of exponential growth. In a new study published in the journal Nature, researchers provide a detailed...

Plastic in the ocean could triple between 2015 and 2025, according to a new report for the United Kingdom government. The Foresight Future of the Sea report said the marine environment faces "unprecedented change as a result...

The world's first plastic-free supermarket aisle opened on February 28 at the Amsterdam location of the Netherlands-based supermarket chain Ekoplaza. Within this aisle, customers will be able to choose from more than 700...

Oil giant BP has predicted that increased regulation on plastic pollution around the world will result in decreased demand for petroleum, the key ingredient in most plastic. “We think we’re going to see increasing regulation...

In New Orleans, clean-up crews have found 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads in the catch basins on St. Charles Avenue between Poydras Street and Lee Circle. These festive plastic staples were clogging 15,000, or fully one-quarter,...

As if coral reefs didn't have enough to contend with, as bleaching ravages the vital ocean environments - a new study shows that billions of pieces of discarded plastic are spreading disease across the world's reefs...

London is taking a swing at plastic waste with moves that offer alternatives to plastic water bottles. Instead of buying another container that could end up in a landfill or the ocean, people in the city could use a drinking...

SaltWater Brewery in South Florida is the first brewery to test biodegradable six-pack rings. Designed by start-up E6PR, the Eco Six-Pack Ring is made from wheat and barley, which allows it to be composted. And best of all?...