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Plastic Pollution

Scientists Found a Caterpillar That Eats Plastic. Could It Help Solve our Plastic Crisis? Plastic Pollution

Scientists Found a Caterpillar That Eats Plastic. Could It Help Solve our Plastic Crisis?

Each year, humanity churns out some 300 million tons of plastic and ships it around the world before dropping it into landfills. And the problem doesn’t stop there. In the half-century since plastic exploded into our lives, tiny bits of it have spread through our oceans, our ecosystems and even…
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March 3, 2020
Scientists Found a Caterpillar That Eats Plastic. Could It Help Solve our Plastic Crisis? Plastic Pollution

Scientists Found a Caterpillar That Eats Plastic. Could It Help Solve our Plastic Crisis?

Each year, humanity churns out some 300 million tons of plastic and ships it around the world before dropping it into landfills. And the problem doesn’t stop there. In the half-century since plastic exploded into our lives, tiny bits of it have spread through our oceans, our ecosystems and even…
bubmag
March 3, 2020
Mars & Beyond, An Exciting New Immersive Exhibition On London’s Southbank Plastic Pollution

Mars & Beyond, An Exciting New Immersive Exhibition On London’s Southbank

Detail from Oskar Krajewski's installation, Colony on Mars 2071, at London's Bargehouse until 15 ... March 2020 Paul Allen/Andfotography.com A brilliant, timely new exhibition in a nineteenth-century former warehouse on London’s southbank, Mars & Beyond deals with both our environmental concerns and our fascination with outerspace. The exhibition poses the…
bubmag
March 3, 2020
Ocean protection plan charts course for defending California coast Plastic Pollution

Ocean protection plan charts course for defending California coast

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…
bubmag
March 3, 2020
Anti-Coke Lawsuit: “Plastic Is Set to Outweigh Fish in the Ocean” Plastic Pollution

Anti-Coke Lawsuit: “Plastic Is Set to Outweigh Fish in the Ocean”

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…
bubmag
March 2, 2020