In a world where over 1.5 billion plastic bottles are bought daily and microplastics – found in oceans and soil – are eaten by every level of the food chain, it shouldn’t be surprising to learn that plastic poses a real danger to human health. A new...
One of my biggest pet peeves is plastic waste. Every Wednesday I place my blue bin filled with recyclable plastics on the side of the curb, but I have no idea what happens after they are collected. It is a mystery. I suspect much of it goes into a landfill, which is...
The whole world is on a campaign against plastic waste. Some rely on legal prohibitions, others argue for practical alternatives or develop tools to clean up the oceans. A group of women in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific are using their creativity as a...
Subscribe: SpotifyStudies show that fishing nets make up 10% of the plastic pollution in the ocean, causing irreparable harm to marine life and the environment as a whole. But one company has found a creative way to tackle that issue – and they’re just getting...
Love them or hate them, plastics are everywhere. They protect our food, make our cars lighter and hospitals would not run without them. In fact plastics are so useful, their demand is expected to double in the next 20 years. Yet our plastics system is broken. Only 14%...
