Plastic Pollution

The Government of Nigeria will join the World Economic Forum’s Global Plastic Action Partnership alongside Indonesia, Ghana and Viet Nam to advance national efforts to fight plastic pollutionThe partnership will bring together Nigeria’s leading policy-makers, business leaders, civil society organizations to formulate a common approach to bring system change to…

Plastic pollution is ubiquitous today, with microplastic particles from disposable goods found in natural environments throughout the globe, including Antarctica. But how those particles move through and accumulate in the environment is poorly understood. Now a Princeton University study has revealed the mechanism by which microplastics, like Styrofoam, and particulate…

Someone living along the Ganges River in India recently received a gift that we can safely say no one on Earth had ever gotten before. At first, it must have looked like an ordinary plastic bottle floating down the river, save for the rod poking out of its top, like…

Mount Everest has been depicted as ‘the world’s highest junkyard. Microplastics haven’t been studied on the mountain previously, yet they’re commonly just as persistent and typically more challenging to eliminate than larger debris items. Scientists analyzing snow and stream samples from the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition…

Environment 20 November 2020 By Krista Charles Rubbish left on Mount Everest. Photo taken in 1993PIERRE ROYER/AFP via Getty ImagesMicroplastics are present at both the highest and deepest points on Earth. The tiny pieces of plastic had previously been discovered in the 11-kilometre-deep Mariana trench in the Pacific Ocean and…

What we refer to as "plastic" hasn't been around for long. But its usefulness has caused production to skyrocket -- from about two million tons in 1950 to almost 400 million tons a year now, and rising steadily. It's a problem. Although much of it can be recycled, most isn't. That's led many…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Plastic pollution is ubiquitous today, with microplastic particles from disposable goods found in natural environments throughout the globe, including Antarctica. But how those particles move through and accumulate in the environment is poorly understood. Now a Princeton University study has revealed the mechanism by which microplastics,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The combined environmental threat of plastic pollution and ocean acidification are having significant impacts on species living in our oceans, according to new research. An international team of scientists found that after three weeks of being submerged in the ocean, the bacterial diversity on plastic bottles…

A study published today in the journal Science Advances has revealed that the United States ranks as high as third among countries contributing to coastal plastic pollution when taking into account its scrap plastic exports as well as the latest figures on illegal dumping and littering in the country. The…

Pictures | Fri Oct 16, 2020 | 9:14pm EDT Products made entirely of plastic bags are pictured at the Plastic Bag Store, a pop-up to raise awareness of the environmental issues with plastics in Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, October 16, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri Reuters / Friday, October…