Plastic Pollution

A new facility in Lancaster, California provides a solution two of the world's greatest problems: climate change caused by greenhouse gasses and plastic pollution.Lancaster, a city located about 70 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, has teamed up with SGH2 Energy Global to build a green hydrogen plant that's three…

Opération Mer Propre (Operation Clean Sea) is looking to raise awareness toward "the beginnings of a new type of pollution" in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as discarded masks and gloves have been littered on the seabed, BBC News reports.The group's founder, Laurent Lombard, shared underwater footage of the PPE floating off the seaside resort of Golfe-Juan on France's Côte…

A manager at Crustacean Restaurant in California wears a face mask while speaking on the phone | AP Photo California Disposable plates and drinking straws are staging a comeback in California and across the country. too. SAN FRANCISCO — First, reusable grocery bags were lost to the coronavirus. Silverware and…

Plastic pollution in our oceans is a major ongoing global crisis. Researchers estimate that 8 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year. Much of the plastic is dumped carelessly, on land or in rivers, and then carried or blown into the sea. Nearly 700 species, including…

In a back room at his home in Santa Cruz, California, George Leonard is amassing a stockpile of plastic bags. Most of the time, he eschews the things. As chief scientist at Ocean Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit based in Washington, DC, Leonard spends his time campaigning against single-use plastics that…

The impact of plastic on the many species that call the ocean home is a huge unknown, but scientists are starting to piece together the kinds of risks this pollution poses to the marine ecosystem. The latest finding in this area concerns a common seafood in blue mussels, which researchers…

Before the coronavirus pandemic, the plastic bag was in retreat.Single-use plastics had become the subject of aggressive — and increasingly successful — restrictions. Consumers were becoming mindful of the need to reduce the amount of plastic they used. Companies were switching to more sustainable materials.Now, rollbacks of regulations, sanitary concerns…

(Natural News) As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, many environmentalists are now sounding an alarm over another enemy this global outbreak is highlighting: plastic. Millions of people around the world are now living in a country where wearing masks has been deemed mandatory. From Vietnam, Israel to Cuba, Germany and…

Rotterdam, October 26, 2019 - The Ocean Cleanup unveils the Interceptor, the first scalable river ... cleanup technology. Pierre AUGIER for The Ocean Cleanup Deloitte has calculated the annual cost of marine plastic pollution to be $6-19 billion a year to key economic sectors for coastal communities. One of the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Dr. Fengwei (David) Xie is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing (IINM), WMG, University of Warwick. His research focuses on "green"/bio-polymers for sustainability, environmental protection, people's better life and health. He works on developing "green" processes and "green" materials…