Plastic Pollution

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…

GOODWOOD, England Formula E founder Alejandro Agag is ready to take electric racing to extremes with the launch on Friday of a rugged SUV prototype that will compete in some of the most remote and ravaged parts of the planet. The Spaniard, soon to step aside…

Most recently, in Connecticut last month, the industry helped to soundly defeat a bill that would have expanded deposits to juice and energy drink bottles, along with soda and beer. Its like Groundhog Day all over again, Chris Phelps, state director of the a…

This house, at first glance, looks like it is made from wood. However, this house is really made from 600,000 recycled plastic bottles. These bottles were shredded, melted, and then made to be a wall six inches thick. The house also has hidden advantages over…

Its that time of the season where you put your money where your mouth is. We have heard enough about plastic pollution and how we keep adding to the trash. This applies mainly to the food industry where takeaways equal to use of plastic cutlery. Wooden spoons…

New Zealand officially banned single-use plastic shopping bags Monday, introducing hefty fines for businesses that continue to provide them. Plastic pollution has become a growing global concern, with a million birds and more than 100,000 marine mammals inju…

When artist Chris Jordan first photographed the bodies of dead albatross chicks on Midway Island a decade ago—creating the now iconic images showing bottlecaps and other plastic fragments that filled the birds’ stomachs before they died—the images helped cata…