Plastic Pollution

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There’s no doubt that the beauty industry generates an enormous amount of waste.  If you think about it, most products are wrapped in cellophane before you even get to the actual product box, which is often made from very thick cardboard (with perhaps, additional plastic bits) that may or may…

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…

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…

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…

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…