Plastic Pollution

Polylactic acid is derived from plant material like corn sugar, potato or sugarcane, and is used to replace conventional plastic in a number of consumer goods. Visual: United States Department of Agriculture VIEWPOINTS: Partner content,…

Millions of people get their caffeine fix every morning by popping a coffee pod into their respective machines. In fact, according to the National Coffee Association and market-research firm Statista, 41 percent of Americans are in possession of a single-cup …

For the longest time, pockets of nothing but air were Nikes secret to making comfortable shoes. But today the company revealed its new Joyride technology, which instead fills shoe soles with thousands of tiny foam beads. Nike promises the new design increases…

Ocean2Ocean: 22-year old activist runs from East Coast to West Coast to fight the marine plastic pollution On July 26th, Sam Bencheghib, a 22-year old athlete, environmental activist, co-founder of Make a Change World and youth ambassador of Parley f…

Single-use plastics are a blessing and a curse. They have fueled a revolution in commercial and consumer convenience and improved hygiene standards, but also have saturated the world's coastlines and clogged landfills. By one estimate 79 percent of all plasti…

The runway finale for Natasha Tonic at Paraiso. Photo: Courtesy of Paraiso Miami Beach One would assume while looking at Natasha Tonić's garments on a rack — which I first encountered while backstage at Paraiso Miami Beach during Miami Swim Week — that the L…

SHANGHAI In a cramped courtyard behind a row of whitewashed apartment buildings, Qin Jinfeng stands guard next to a row of color-coded trash cans. Qin, ashort, affable man in his forties, can be found here every evening. He has handled security at the Beiche…

Last fall, at New York Fashion Week, tie-dye was absolutely everywhere: Everyone from Prada to Stella McCartney to Proenza Schouler sent models down the catwalk in hippie-inspired gowns and T-shirts. But for those of us who can’t afford to drop $2,000 on embr…

The Irish call it turf; everywhere else its known as peat. Its a sort of dense mud found all over Ireland that people there burn in stoves to keep warm in the winter. Whatever you call it, it probably doesnt taste very goodunless youre a young Shane Lowry. L…

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