Plastic Pollution

A blue whale jumping out of the long pond in front of the Regional Science Centre and Planetarium is the latest tourist attraction in the city. Students, who have always been the greatest patrons of the centre, is thronging the place increasingly these days t…

Plastic Pollution - From Mountain Top to Ocean Bottom

Jessica Nabongo has visited every country on earth, and one of the most important lessons she took home with her was about plastic pollution. In October, the 35-year-old Ugandan-American travel blogger and former consultant for the United Nations Food and Ag…

By Adam Vaughan Blue crusts made from plastic found in Giglio Sonja M. Ehlers A discovery of two new types of plastic pollution in the Mediterranean for the first time suggests the issue may be more widespread along coastlines than we realised. Plasticrus…

Since the Chinese plastic recycling market closed, 58% of New Zealand’s plastic waste goes to countries in South-East Asia. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND New Zealand is ranked the third-most-wasteful country in the OECD. New Zealanders produce five time…

Image copyrightBangor UniversityImage caption The food packaging trays are made from grass, straw and maize stalks Grass, straw and maize stalks could provide alternatives to plastic packaging, scientists have said. Bangor University researchers are worki…

In recent months, Billie Eilish has been increasingly vocal about the impending environmental crisis, confronting a world on fire in her all the good girls go to hell video, and urging her fans to live a greener lifestyle. Now, the singer is offering free gig…

Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with pristine white sand beaches that are teeming with life. But on the ground, there's a different scene: plas…

All business establishments, especially hotels, hospitals and diagnostic centres in the district, violating the waste management norms should be identified and stringent action should taken against them, Collector V. Vinay Chand has said. Medical waste The…

Brewing giant Heineken has become the latest beer firm to replace the plastic six-pack rings with an environmentally friendly alternative in a bid to reduce plastic pollution. The firm will replace the plastic rings, which hold multiple cans together, with a…