Plastic Pollution

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…

Having lived in Madrid for almost two years, I have been struck by the extent of single-use and disposable plastic, styrofoam and polystyrene. Plastic reigns supreme, it is everywhere. Worringly, there often appears to be a carefree attitude toward the damage plastic and other trash has on the environment, the…

We refer to our report on “Plastic Packaging in Southeast Asia and China”. Headlines in the media have claimed that Malaysia is the top plastic ocean polluter in Asia. We would like to clarify that we are disappointed with the inaccurate and misleading headlines of these articles. Our report cited…

Associate Researcher Dimitri Deheyn is studying how microfibers degrade in the environment, through experiments in the ocean and in the lab. Credit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Flying somewhere over the planet, there's a plane equipped with research-grade, double-sided tape on the outside of its hull. Each time the pilot…

More in Sustainability New Energy Options Can Transform an Industry and a Nation Feature Article — Taqa is the Arabic word for energy. Defined as the capacity of a physical system to perform work, energy can be transferred between objects but,... Read more TripIt Update: Your Flight’s Carbon Footprint, at…

A team of scientists plans to explore a little-known part of the ocean to search for new sea life and to investigate the effects of pollution and climate change. The scientists will enter what they call the “Midnight Zone” of the Indian Ocean. It is an area at a depth…

On Jan. 1, 2018, China stopped importing almost all plastic waste from other countries, after decades of being the world’s dumping ground for trash. And now, two years later, the country is ramping up initiatives to decrease plastic pollution by announcing bans on a variety of single-use plastic items. China’s…