Plastic Pollution

Video creation application TikTok marked National Coming Out Day Friday by teaming up with GLAAD on the #ThisIsMe initiative in support of LGBTQ youth.Through Oct. 16, TikTok will donate $1 to GLAAD, up to $50,000, for every #ThisIsMe video, and the app said …

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin DJ and MAAC ambassador Lauren Lane in front of Robyn Wards Plastic Nation collection at Sabina Estates in Ibiza Credit: Music Against Animal Cruelty This past weekend, a…

Styrofoam cups are made of polystyrene, which takes centuries, not millennia, to break down. Getty Until today, it was thought that polystyrene would pollute the environment for millennia. This widely-held assumption was based off the observation that micro…

Ocean Cleanup breakthrough coincides with BlackRock's new circular economy fund and Unilever's plastics pledge.The Ocean Cleanup's latest prototype has successfully trapped ocean plastic in its latest trial. The Ocean Cleanup The war on plastic pollution c…

A study published by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) shows that polystyrene, one of the world's most ubiquitous plastics, may degrade in decades or centuries when exposed to sunlight, rather than thousands of years as previously tho…

For the second year in a row, Nestlé and Tim Hortons were the top companies behind branded plastic bottles, coffee cups and lids and other plastic waste collected in shoreline cleanups across the country, Greenpeace Canada reported Tuesday. Starbucks, McDona…

Plastic packaging is everywhere in grocery stores — even on naturally packaged produce. | Getty Images Stores like Aldi and Trader Joe’s are trying to decrease excess plastic, but experts say it’s not enough. Plastic packaging can be both a blessing and a cur…

Today, Unilevera company that sells products from over 1,000 brands, in 193 countries, to 2.5 billion people around the worldannounced that it will use half as much new plastic by 2025. Considering the company's scale, this commitment will have a big impact:…

Plastic pollution is suffocating our oceans, and leading to the destruction of multiple species of fish. One of the largest producers of plastic bottles - Coca-Cola - has promised to take steps to curb this environmental crisis. Are these empty promises or is…

ZMR-Anadolu Agency Turkey's third-largest city Izmir on Oct. 4 made a full commitment to support World Wildlife Funds (WWF) "no plastics in nature" campaign.  The mayor of the city signed a letter of intent with WWF which has docked its Blue Panda sailboat …