Plastic Pollution

To kick off Paraiso at Miami Swim Week, showgoers attended the inaugural Upcycle Challenge. Hosted by The Upcycle Project, a program that encourages upcycling by providing fashion schools with discarded textiles and garments, the competition paired specially …

Roanokes local food co-op is sacking single-use plastic bags. The Roanoke Co+op, with locations in downtown and Grandin, plans to stop offering plastic shopping bags at checkout after Aug. 31. This builds on the shops mission to promote eco-conscious living…

If you aren’t aware of the gigantic problem of plastic pollution in Earth’s oceans, well, congratulations on your low media consumption but it’s time to come out of that rock that you’re leaving beneath. According to the World Economic Forum, there will be mo…

(CNN)A teenager from Ireland may have found a way to rescue our oceans from the growing plastic pollution problem. A walk on the beach led Fionn Ferreira to develop his project on microplastic extraction from water for the annual Google Science Fair. The pro…

Fionn Ferreira lives on a remote island in West Cork, a seaside region in southern Ireland. One day while kayaking, he spotted a rock on the shore that had been coated in oil from a recent spill. Attached to the rock were tiny bits of plastic less than five m…

Media captionWhat do shoppers think about Waitrose's trial? Waitrose is extending a trial to remove packaging from many products after a positive response in its first store. The "Unpacked" scheme was tested in Oxford, with customers using their own contain…

Thousands of plastic bags were pulled from the Aegean Sea off Greece’s Andros island this month by a team of divers and environmentalists who described what they found as a “gulf full of plastic corals". "It was a very scary thing to see," said Arabella Ross…

Glitter is the basis of many parties, most figure-skater costumes, and Kesha’s entire makeup case. Glitter is also a sparkly microplastic that pollutes the planet, doesn’t decompose, and gets absolutely everywhere (as in, everywhere), a truly party-pooping fa…

Glitter is the basis of many parties, most figure-skater costumes, and Kesha’s entire makeup case. Glitter is also a sparkly microplastic that pollutes the planet, doesn’t decompose, and gets absolutely everywhere (as in, everywhere), a truly party-pooping fa…

A cyclist who has completed a 7,000-kilometre ride around the British coastline, helping clean up beaches alongside local volunteers, says she retrieved more than 3.4 tonnes of plastic pollution during her journey, which lasted almost three months. Kiko Matt…