Plastic Pollution

Orange Juicer Turns Peels Into Cups Italian design firm Carlo Ratti Associati’s “Feel the Peel” machine takes the beloved orange juicer and turns it into a model for sustainability. The oranges are still freshly squeezed, but their peels are turned into biod…

Psychedelic installation in NYC spotlights environmental issues with immersive art

Around 8.8 million tons of plastic accumulate in the oceans each year, but only about 270,000 tons are believed to be floating on the ocean's surface. For years, most scientists have thought that the "missing" plastic quickly degrades after entering the oc…

Using Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field (located on Jamaica Bay) as his source, Barry Rosenthal collects plastic pollution from the water and photographs itoftentimes in monochrome or artful arrangementsto showcase just how much we waste. Every time he sets out …

Shed prints plastic pollution on walls to highlight the problem of ocean waste

India ranks number three in terms of plastic fibres found in a sample of tap water 82.4 per cent of tap water sampled contained over 4 plastic fibres per 500 ml, according to a study by the University of Newcastle, Australia, and published by the World Wildli…

Companies are increasingly opting towards upcylcing measures for environmental sustainability. (Getty Images/Thinkstock) Have you ever imagined wearing an ocean-friendly T-shirt made of plastic? When used plastic bottles are washed and chopped into flakes, m…

Climate change may be messing with corals ability to reproduce, threatening them with extinction, according to a new study. Published in Science Thursday, the new paper sheds light on the ways climate change may be disrupting coral spawning, an extraordinary…

Scientists warn we are now entering the plastic age

In the mid-1950s, domesticated cats in Minamata, Japan mysteriously began to convulse and fall into the bay. The people of Minamata took on similar symptoms shortly after, losing their ability to speak, move, and think. Chisso Corp., a Japanese chemical comp…