Plastic Pollution

The documentary filmmaker Noah Hutton was at a scientific symposium when he first encountered Max Liboiron. “I kept hearing some of the sharpest, smartest critiques of status-quo assumptions I’ve ever heard,” Hutton told me. “She engaged with oth…

Pizza was just the first step to saving the world, according to Zume co-founder and CEO Alex Garden. The company, makers of a robot-powered truck that cooks pizzas en route to customers, today announced it is making a major pivot to manufacturing compostable …

A University of Sussex student has taken inspiration from the seas to find a solution to the man-made plastic pollution contaminating the world's oceans. Product design student Lucy Hughes has invented a bioplastic created from fish skin and scales and red a…

When researchers studied people from different parts of the world, they found microplastics in the stool of every person they tested. USA TODAY From the top of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans, we know that plastic trash is everywhere on Earth. Now we k…

If youre the type to get squeamish about the things you accidentally eat, youre not going to like the new report released by the WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund) this Tuesday. According to the report, we might be eating a credit cards worth of …

The review encouraged the store to change its ways. Come on guys, be sustainable and quit using plastic if you dont have to. Its gross, the reviewer wrote. The stores latest campaign to get customers involved drew reaction on social media, but probably not w…

Plastic can be a very useful medium, but our throw away culture has also made it a huge pollution problem especially when it ends up in the sea. While efforts like the Ocean Cleanup attempt to deal with plastic waste near or on the surface, researchers in Ita…

When 24-year-old Boyan Slat set out to rid the world's oceans of plastic, part of his mission was to protect animals from being poisoned by human garbage. In 2013, Slat's organization, The Ocean Cleanup, began researching ways to clean the Great Pacific Ga…

Plastic trash gathered during a clean-up in Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images From plastic bags to straws, single-use plastic products have worn out their welcome in Canada. Today, the Canadian government announced that it plans to ban harmful sin…

Canada will ban single-use plastics from 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday, declaring it a "global challenge" to phase out the bottles, straws and plastic bags clogging the world's oceans. "I am very pleased to announce that as early as 20…