Plastic Pollution

Dutch company collects plastic pollution from rivers to make parks and products

Clad in diving gear or oilskins and gumboots, a team of scientists and activists spent weeks in the South Atlantic, enduring storms and choppy seas to check up on a place almost no-one has heard of. Their mission: To monitor an underwater mountain for clues …

In an age where universities are having to increasingly behave like brands, Jack Renwick Studio have created a bold new positioning for UCL (University College London) to help enable a change in their reputation from world-class to world-leading. Consistently…

Mineral II

The retail bonanza set to begin today, Black Friday, is expected to see more than half of shoppers buying electronic goods and almost a third purchasing clothes. But a new report says that up to 80 percent of itemsand any plastic packaging they are wrapped i…

Youve seen the pictures of massed plastic floating in the ocean. Of dead whales that choked on tons of polyethylene bags they swallowed. Of landfills clogged with soda bottles, dry-cleaning wrapping and food containers. Every piece of such dismaying litter, d…

Here's one way to cut down on plastic pollution: Eat your bowl

Premier League clubs have taken major steps to cut their plastic waste since the Daily Telegraph launched a Government-backed manifesto to pressurise them into becoming greener, it can be revealed. A year after an investigation by this newspaper laid bare ho…

A new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans would be willing to pay more for products made out of environmentally sustainable materials to avoid single-use plastic products and help save the planet. The survey was conducted by PBS NewsHour and Maris…

Plastiglomerates, a new kind of rocks made partially from burned plastic, were described for the first time in 2014 from a beach on the Big Island of Hawaii. Most likely, the plastiglomerate there formed from melting plastic in fires lit by humans who were ca…