Plastic Pollution

In his book Climbing Everest, British mountaineer George Mallory wrote that surmounting that lofty peak is “the struggle of life itself.” Apparently, that struggle doesn’t always include people picking up after themselves.A recent government-led expedition up…

In his book Climbing Everest, British mountaineer George Mallory wrote that surmounting that lofty peak is “the struggle of life itself.” Apparently, that struggle doesn’t always include people picking up after themselves.A recent government-led expedition up…

Agence France-PresseAug 22, 2019 11:07:29 IST The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday the level of microplastics in drinking-water is not yet dangerous for humans but called for more research into potential future risk. In its first report into th…

Scientists at UC San Diego are working to understand plastic degradation in the ocean, particularly smaller particles called microplastics and related microfibers. Marine biologist Dimitri Deheyn, associate researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanograp…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Pyroplastics, human-made pebbles. Rob Arnold Rock pebbles are common along the shores of the sea and rivers. The perpetual motion of the waves and water currents erode a…

It took us a while to notice, but now it's clear that plastic pollution is everywhere: in the air we breathe, in the food we eat, and the water we drink. Last year, an unsettling analysis found more than 90 percent of the world's most popular bottled water c…

Innersense Organic Beauty Teams Up with Plastic Pollution Solutions for Sustainable Packaging

Beachcombing has long been a part of life for island communities. On the southwestern edge of Scarp, a small, treeless island off the coast of Harris in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, the Mol Mòr ("big beach") was where locals went to collect driftwood for repair…

in early august 2019, donald trump visited the site of a new plastic plant for royal dutch shell, located 30 miles north of pittsburgh pennsylvannia. the US president celebrated the 5,000 construction jobs the project has created but didn’t acknowledge the mi…

I feel incredibly lucky to have visited our planet's frozen frontiers.  Last year I joined a Greenpeace expedition to the Antarctic to research the state of our oceans and bring the incredible diversity of life I saw there closer to people who may never get …