Plastic Pollution

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new ocean protection plan sets out steps to safeguard California's coast against rising seas, while shoring up public access and building coastal economies. The Ocean Protection Council on Wednesday approved the Strategic Plan to Protect California's Oceans, a five-year roadmap for navigating threats including climate…

Environmental group Earth Island Institute filed a lawsuit in California last week against Coke, Pepsi, Nestlé, and a number of other plastic polluters for knowingly misleading the public about how much of their produced plastic is being recycled (and landing in the ocean instead), VICE reports.“These companies should bear the…

Coke, Pepsi and several other big plastic polluters are getting sued for lying about their products’ recyclability and clogging up the oceans with millions of tons of waste. A California-based environmental group, the Earth Island Institute, filed the lawsuit in San Mateo County on Thursday against the companies, arguing that…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of the University of Barcelona has studied for the first time the presence of microplastics on the coasts of Barcelona, thanks to the participation of citizens gathering scientific samples. The study, published in the journal Science of The Total Environment, is a pioneer citizen…

SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- AROMATICA, a clean and ethical beauty brand based in Korea, announced the launch of the newly refreshed Reviving Rose Infusion Toner, Serum and Cream with richer moisturizing and reviving formulas. Prior to the increased awareness of environmental protection, AROMATICA has taken on…

Plastics waste littering our beaches. Dustan Woodhouse/Unsplash The facts about plastics pollution make for grim reading. According to a Plastic Oceans report, 350 million tons of plastic are produced every year, more, they say, than the combined weight of 7.7 billion human beings in the world. Eight million tons of…

THE REAL REASON YOU CAN’T USE THE GROCERY BAG OF YOUR CHOICE: The Perverse Panic over Plastic. The green campaign against plastic isn’t merely a waste of time and money. Besides inconveniencing humans, it’s harmful to the environment. Banning plastic grocery bags contributes to global warming because it leads to more…

Photo: Getty Companies say that a lot of single-use plastic items are recyclable: cups, trays, lids, cutlery, straws, stirrers. But it turns out those claims are misleading. Recycling facilities can only recycle a handful of the types of plastic being sent their way. That means many plastic products that many…

By Godfrey Bivbere •Maritime Academy, OronTHE Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, in collaboration with Marine and Environment Care is set to roll out a campaign against marine plastic pollution. Addressing the audience at the Academy’s auditorium, the Rector, Commodore Emmanuel Effedua (retd), expressed his commitment to the campaign to end marine…

Investors don’t fear Sen. Bernie Sanders as much as they do Sen. Elizabeth Warren in becoming the Democratic nominee for president. Both have proposed massive government spending, including an overhaul of the country’s health-care system, but Sanders has pulled ahead in primaries so far. Want evidence? Check out the following…