Plastic Pollution

By Kate O’Neill, Associate Professor, Global Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley. Originally published at The Conversation Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors are fol…

The first time self-described “ocean advocate” Emily Penn was confronted by the magnitude of the plastic pollution problem was during an international sailing expedition 10 years ago. She spotted bits of debris, things like toothbrushes, floating in the water…

On average, 8.8 million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. The maximum amount could be closer to 14 million tons — about the weight of 2 million elephants. Most plastics take hundreds of years to break down. And even then, they just splinter into…

Strictly speaking, Im not a religious person. But I do believe that peoples faith, vis-a-vis the power of organized religion, could have a profound, if not near-miraculous, impact on the severely polluted state of our planet. For one, most religions possess …

Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors are following suit. On May 28, 2019, Malaysia's environment minister announced that the country was sending 3,000 metric tons of contaminated plastic wast…

MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An estimated 8 million metric tonnes of plastic pollution enter the worlds oceans each year. In light of this, Corona is accepting plastic intercepted in cities and on the coast as payment for beer during the week of World Oce…

Plastic is a plague upon this planet of ours. It’s on the highest mountain peaks and in the deepest parts of the ocean, in rivers, soil, and the air we breathe. And it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, because it was built to last a dozen lifetimes. It’s a m…

Plastic is a plague upon this planet of ours. It’s on the highest mountain peaks and in the deepest parts of the ocean, in rivers, soil, and the air we breathe. And it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, because it was built to last a dozen lifetimes. It’s a m…

Launched in 2010, Nowness has been at the vanguard of video content for the best part of almost a decade now, and the platforms latest project sees it tackling the present days hottest topic: climate change. #SurvivalSeason, a quartet of new short films whic…

#the100kinitiative have been developed for sustainable beverage brand Found X Oceana, the world’s largest ocean conservation group.100,000 Bottles to commemorate 100,000 marine mammals impacted by plastic. 100% of profits go to Oceana to fight plastic pollu…