Plastic Pollution

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 …

Terming the axing of trees in Aarey Colony as shameful and disgusting, Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday tweeted that the Mumbai Metro 3 officials should be posted in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) to destroy terror camps rather than trees. In…

JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The fear that climate change will worsen inequality in South Africa - with only the rich able to afford enough water, food and safely-located housing - is a rising concern for Cape Town-based teenage activist Zoe Pr…

Lilly Satidtanasarn, the 12-year-old taking on plastic pollution in Thailand

Single-use utensils are on the out, if you haven't noticed the recent mass shunning of evil plastic straws. Bars, cafes and restaurants around the world are taking steps to reduce the amounts of waste they generate, and plastic waste is enemy number one than…

The Clean Kundapur Project (CKP), a peoples initiative to raise awareness about plastic pollution and marine conservation in and around Kundapur town, has brought out a three-minute music video against plastic pollution and has uploaded it on YouTube. Address…

The newest prototype, which sailed to the middle of the Pacific Ocean in June, is now capturing large pieces of plastic trash—and huge “ghost nets” littered by fishing boats, a major hazard for marine life—along with microplastics as small as 1 millimeter, th…