Plastic Pollution

Thousands of volunteers wielding nets and bin bags scoured coasts, parks and riverbanks across the globe Saturday, in a litter-picking drive highlighting the vast quantity of trash dumped worldwide, a day after mass international climate protests. Campaigner…

An entire state may join the war against single-use plastics. Long Island Democratic Senator Todd Kaminsky, in partnership with a group of lawmakers, is leading a campaign to ban individually-packaged amenities in New York state hotels with more than 50 room…

Technology uses banana leaves as a biodegradable alternative to single-use plastic

The guys behind the Runamics stumbled across a pretty strange and worrying fact. Your synthetic polyester sports and gym-wear has pretty far and wide-reaching consequences. With each wash, small plastic fibers dislodge from your garment, finding their way eve…

In 2016, global plastic waste amounted to some 242 million metric tons. Of this, 137 million tonnes (or more than 57%) originated in East Asia, the Pacific, Europe, Central Asia and North America, much of which made its way into the ocean. In 2015, the Journa…

KARACHI: As the population of the world is increasing rapidly it is also producing garbage at an alarming rate. We use plastic the most it in our daily life for different purposes. This is the major cause of pollution around the world. Plastic has negative ef…

Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear or 'ghost gear' contributes substantially to global marine pollution responsible for wide-reaching environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Until now there has not been a clear global picture of the quantit…

Grand Theft Auto V is the third best-selling video game of all time with an estimated 110million sales across all platforms. But could its iconic global status be concealing a series of environmental messages, charting the advance of global warming and the a…

High levels of plastic byproducts discovered in children, study finds

Evidence of the increasing effects of climate change is building, as are the investing opportunities and changes in consumer habits linked to environmental concerns and resource use. Here are select dispatches about the companies responding to customer demand…