Plastic Pollution

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Donate Nearly every country in the world except the United States took a historic step to curb plastic waste last week, when more than 180 nations agreed to add plastic to the Basel Convention, a tre…

“If you’re choosing to design something, you have the power to influence or plan where it might go in its life,” says Matthew Needham, who is about to get his masters in fashion from the London design college Central Saint Martins. “So you have to make consci…

“If you’re choosing to design something, you have the power to influence or plan where it might go in its life,” says Matthew Needham, who is about to get his masters in fashion from the London design college Central Saint Martins. “So you have to make consci…

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An important new study is raising novel concerns over the effects of plastic pollution in our oceans. For the first time researchers investigated how a common ocean bacteria, responsible for producing over 10 percent of oxygen in the atmosphere, is negatively…

Victor Vescovo went down to his submersible, ready to explore the deepest place in the ocean the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. As he went down, the ship then proceeded to detach the submersible. The submersible, now detached, went down the ocean floor.…

Last week, world leaders wrapped things up at the Basel Conventiona two-week gathering in Geneva, Switzerland that covers how we can clean up the planet for the sake of human health. They 187 countries in attendance landed on some important decisions: They a…

As small as a grain of dustbut of great global significance. The word microplastics is familiar to many, but the dangers are virtually unexplored. In recent years, plastic pollution has become an ever-increasing burden on the environment. Countless videos and…

Ten per cent of the oxygen we breathe comes from just one kind of bacteria in the ocean. Now laboratory tests have shown that these bacteria are susceptible to plastic pollution, according to a study published in Communications Biology. "We found that exposu…

6)  Plastic pollution is a pressing environmental concern that requires our collective action. Discuss this statement in the background of Basel Convention on the control of hazardous wastes which recently was amended to include plastic waste. (250 words)Why …