Plastic Pollution

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…

Representative image From teaching children about mental health issues to raising awareness about plastic pollution, some schools in India and abroad are going beyond conventional education to raise informed students. Here are a few examples: 1. Waste plast…

Materials that will be recycled, fill a storage area at a materials recycling facility in London, Ont., on March 18 2019. Cities and environmental groups have urged a harder line on unnecessary plastics, citing increasing disposal costs and mounting evidence …

The Trudeau government will ban single-use plastics as early as 2021, CBC News has learned from a government source. Plastic straws, cotton buds, drink stirrers, plates, cutlery and balloon sticks are just some of the single-use plastics that will be banned …

SAN FRANCISCO  The problem of plastic pollution in the ocean is even worse than anyone feared. Tiny broken up pieces of plastic microplastic arent just floating at the waters surface but are pervasive down thousands of feet. Theres actually more microplastic …

Instagrammable pop-up museums are all the rage (see: Museum of Ice Cream, Dream Machine, Color Factory), but the latest iteration of the selfie-ready gallery trend is for a very good cause. The Museum of Plastic aims to teach the masses about plastic pollutio…