Plastic Pollution

Fisk Johnson, CEO of the SC Johnson company, has been using his Twitter feed to shed light on the problem of global plastic pollution, and the results have had me glued to my screen even more than usual. Gorgeous and disturbing videos show him swimming throug…

Fisk Johnson, CEO of the SC Johnson company, has been using his Twitter feed to shed light on the problem of global plastic pollution, and the results have had me glued to my screen even more than usual. Gorgeous and disturbing videos show him swimming throug…

LOEWE is releasing today its second Winter Eye/LOEWE/Nature collection, full of technical menswear ready for this fall and winter. The collection includes waterproof parkas in vibrant hues, fleeces and knitwear made from recycled and organic cotton, T-shirts,…

AP Greenpeace activists assembled life-sized sculptures of two whales emerging from a sea of plastic waste in front of Hungarian Parliament. The large whales, made out of paper, were assembled to raise awareness about disposable plastic waste pollution in th…

MANILA, Philippines Two environment organizations on Thursday received some P20-million grant to help advance efforts in reducing plastic pollution in Philippine oceans. EcoWaste Coalition and Mother Earth Foundation Inc. each got $200,000 or around P10 mill…

This years monsoon in Mumbai was significantly delayed, but when it finally arrived, it brought along with it all-too-familiar tales of flooding and disruption. Apart from chronic flooding spots like Hindmata Junction and Kurla, other parts of the city like M…

Global challenges such as plastic pollution are not easily solved using conventional moonshots.Credit: Universal Images Group/Getty If we can send a human to the Moon, why cant we build sustainable cities? Defeat cancer? Tackle climate change? So go the rall…

Sir David Attenborough has compared changing attitudes over plastic to the abolition of slavery, as he claimed 20 years of warnings about the issue had gone unheard. The veteran presenter likened the current groundswell of concern over plastic at sea to the …

Indonesia has said it will send more than 210 tonnes of rubbish back to Australia, the latest move by a Southeast Asian nation against serving as a "dumping ground" for rich countries. The eight containers seized in Surabaya city should have carried only was…

At the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac in Guadalajara, Sandra Pascoe has successfully used nopales to create biodegradable plastic. It was a series of trial and error for Pascoe, who first started by taking small pieces of dry nopal, which she would then pu…