Plastic Pollution

Sharks the seas top predators for millions of years are at risk of disappearing from the Mediterranean as overfishing and plastic pollution choke populations of the endangered hunters, conservationists have warned. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said that mor…

This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ben Lecomte is swimming through tons of plastic. Pieces of it have gotten stuck to his face. Hes passed abandoned fishing nets that tangle and k…

The writer is a solicitor and works at a law firm As a step towards curbing plastic pollution, State Minister for Climate Change Zartaj Gul has announced a blanket ban on the sale and purchase of polythene shopping bags in different cities of Pakistan effec…

LOEWE has returned with the second installment of its Eye/LOEWE/Nature collection, presenting more technical-heavy pieces primed for the outdoors. The latest lookbook features former world champion swimmer Ning Zetao and British actor Russell Tovey, who respe…

Overall, around 5,120 tons of the seven types of plastic are discharged into the environment each year. This is around 0.7% of the total amount of the seven plastics consumed in Switzerland each year (amounting to a total of around 710,000 tons). According to…

With estimates that around 12,000 million metric tons of plastic will be in landfills or in our environment by 2050, it's easy to feel like this overwhelming issue is out of our control, but the change actually starts with us as the consumers. You may know B…

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…