Plastic Pollution

While surveying the seafloor off the coast of Big Sur, California, a team of scientists has made a bizarre and depressing discovery: thousands of miniature craters, many of which appear to have been formed by human garbage. These trash craters, more formall…

The Recycled Island Foundation is taking a smart, proactive, and circular approach to the issue of marine plastic pollution (h/t Inhabitat). The Rotterdam-based organization has devised a passive litter trap design that collects plastic debris in local waterw…

After the success of his New York-based pop-up museum, “Arcadia Earth,” designed to raise awareness for sustainability and circular design, founder Valentino Vettori is extending the lease till the end of 2020 and taking it to Los Angeles next. An experience…

Written by Pallavi Singhal | Panchkula | Published: December 8, 2019 2:15:09 pm The civic body is already working with the Chandigarh based NGO, YTTS- Youth Technical Training Society. (Representational Image)The Municipal Corporation of Panchkula in ti…

Dead whales beach themselves with hundreds of pounds of plastic in their stomachs. Turtles can't breathe because plastic straws get stuck in their nostrils. Birds are mistaking plastic for food, feeding it to their hungry offspring.  Now another sea creature…

New research finds that on just two remote islands alone, nearly 600,000 crabs are killed every year by plastic debris. If you have ever witnessed the true wonder of a hermit crab housing exchange, you know how crucial their seashell dwellings are. One of li…

Museum of Plastic pops up at Art Basel Miami

Christmas sweaters are adding to plastic pollution, environmental charity says

Packaging "Plastic bags have become ubiquitous and plastic pollution has increased. 1000 Ára Sveitaþorp aims to fix this. By packaging potatoes in paper bags, waste and plastic pollution can be reduced so that it is likely to have a far-reaching effect into …

In the first study of its kind, an IMAS-led research team estimates that around 570 000 hermit crabs have been killed on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean and Henderson Island in the Pacific after being trapped in plastic debris. Published in t…