How hard-to-recycle plastic is being made as good as new
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Plastic waste is a growing environmental concern. About 60 million tonnes of plastics are produced in Europe every year while…
Plastic waste is a growing environmental concern. About 60 million tonnes of plastics are produced in Europe every year while…
How to Reduce Plastic and Other Ocean Pollution Simultaneously Comments|Add Comment|PrintUp to 13 million metric tons of…
Read the full story in Harvard Business Review. Since its invention and widespread introduction into the economy some 70 years…
Rick Wittenmyer shops for groceries at the West Side Market, Friday, April 10, 2020, in Cleveland. There were fewer shoppers…
In September 2019, more than 72,000 people gathered at beaches, streets, offices and parks in 51 countries around the world. At…
Paul Louis / CC BY-SA February 19, 2020; Waste…
Read the full story at Great Lakes Now. Tiny bits of plastic have been making big news lately for turning up just about…
This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
On January 1, Berkeley, California rang in the New Year by putting a new rule in place requiring all cafés and restaurants to…
A world awash in plastic will soon see even more, as a host of new petrochemical plants — their ethane feedstock supplied by…
Transforming our economies from linear to circular can help us reach our climate change goals. What does going circular mean?
Attorneys representing a coalition of 364 advocacy organizations filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection…
Back in 2005, the American Film Institute released a list of the 100 most memorable and lasting bits of film dialogue of all…
Wat hebben koffie drinken, de heg snoeien en een boodschappentas op zak hebben met elkaar gemeen? Onverwacht misschien, maar…
On October 2nd, the Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup announced that it has successfully developed a device that can capture…
The recent wave of zero-waste stores—think Brooklyn’s Precycle and Austin’s (now-closed) In.gredients—may be well-designed, airy…
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More plastic is finding its way to the Arctic, which has repercussions for Arctic and global ecosystems and economies as well…
It’s a big feat to get 65,000 people to do anything, let alone spend three hours picking up soiled trash. Yet, state officials…
1. Make Windows Safer, Day and…
Nearly 50 years ago, scientists studying the North Atlantic Ocean started noticing that tiny fragments of plastic were turning…
Nearly 50 years ago, scientists studying the North Atlantic Ocean started noticing that tiny fragments of plastic were turning…
As soon as this week, California lawmakers could vote on legislation aimed at dramatically reducing plastic pollution from…
Почти все исследования, которые показывают вред микропластика, попадающего в организм, оказались плохого качества
The new merch, branded as a defiant stand against "liberal paper straws," went on sale less than two weeks ago.
By embracing alternatives to plastic packaging and making some simple lifestyle choices we can reduce our reliance on a…
Start-ups are making incremental use of blockchain to reduce plastic waste, but the technology’s power to drive real change is…
It’s plastic-free July, and as awareness of plastic pollution grows across Wales, communities, from villages to counties, are…
There’s plastic in your water, Ottawa. Take it from me. I sampled both major waterways for invertebrates and almost all of…
Plastic is simply a polymer – a repeating chain of molecules – but it’s incredibly useful.First invented about a hundred years…
It’s no secret that plastic pollution litters the streets, fouls rivers, and drifts across oceans. Now, it’s in people, too.
Оценки исследователей неполные и учитывают только некоторые категории продуктов, воду и воздух
In recent months, there has been a disquiet brewing about where our efforts should be focussed in an effort to solve the…
Written in collaboration with Tomoko Yoshida. Plastic has become an integral part of our lives…. But with that has emerged the…
Более половины всего мусора приходится на рыболовные снасти.
Пластик прилетел туда с расстояния не менее 95 километров.
India is banning imports of plastic waste. This is what it means for the fate of your recycling.
WATAMU, Kenya — One Saturday mid-morning in late January, close to 100 people descended on the narrow streets of Watamu village…
China’s decision to no longer be the dumping ground for the world’s recycled waste has left municipalities and waste companies…
What are plastics? All plastics are composed of carbon atoms connected to one another in a chain-like structure, with mostly…
Anyone who works in a lab is familiar with the alarming amount of waste that is generated. This is a systemic problem that we…
A green initiative propelled by government support and kept alive through catchy slogans, recycling has become integrated into…
This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year. On Dec. 18…
After serving as the world’s scrap collector for decades, China’s decision to ban imports of almost all plastic waste last year…
You’d be the richest person on the planet writes professor Liberty Vittert, who recently chose the staggering statistic as the…
In a derelict warehouse complex plastered with “For Rent” signs an hour from the Malaysian capital, four women squatted on…
The very low rate of plastic recycling is one of the most worrying of this year’s notable statistics.
Some stats are better than others.
Royal Statistical Society: “This year’s Statistics of the Year announcement has a distinctly environmental theme as statistics…
This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year. On Dec. 18…
It is no secret that climate change and environmental negligence have been worsened by human activity and accelerated…
Всего в кале испытуемых нашли девять разных видов пластика
Microplastics are not just showing up on beaches like this one in the Canary Islands. They are showing up in human waste.; …
Nature always finds a way. And when nature is being thrown new conditions, such as during a brutal change of climate, either…
Although untouched remains a myth and pristine has ceased to exist, the remote stunning nature of the African wilderness is…
With the world finally becoming aware of the issues of plastic waste, these figures show just how universal plastic production…
More and more Americans reckon with their wild overuse of plastic. Here’s how we got so dependent on the stuff in the first…
90% of New Zealands's seabirds are threatened with extinction.
Stephanie B. Borrelle, Auckland University of…
On 9 July 2018, Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) announced that it would eliminate all its plastic straws, globally, by 2020. Here's…
Scientific American: “The only thing worse than being lied to is not knowing you’re being lied to. It’s true that plastic…
Исследователи подсчитали, что к 2030 году 111 миллионов тонн пластиковых отходов останутся бесхозными и их некуда будет девать, с…
Indonesia has become the home of bioplastics, derived from red seaweed.
Plastics have done wonders for hygiene and human health. We need to fix the waste problem – but don’t throw out the baby with…
Thanks to a genetically engineered enzyme, a bug that eats plastic bottles developed a much bigger appetite for our rubbish. It…
Eigentlich wollte ich zum heutigen Earth Day, der Plastik zum Thema hat, einen eigenständigen Blogbeitrag schreiben, aber die…
Случайно созданный мутантный фермент расщепляет пластик лучше, чем природный, пишут биологи в Proceedings of the National…
iStock/marekuliasz After you spent the last hour whipping up a healthy dinner, just looking at the leftovers piled in pots and…
In Kurzform verschriftlichter Keynote-Vortrag incl. Vortragsfolien zur Weiterbildung von etwa 800 Tauchausbildern anlässlich…
By Kim Pickering, University of…
1. Einleitung Der Eingriff des Menschen in die Umwelt hat Ausmaße erreicht, die schwer vorstellbar sind – quantitative Abschätzun…
Nature and wildlife photographers like Justin Hofman capture stunning images showing us the beauty the world has to offer, but…
Polyester polyurethane makes a delicious meal for the Aspergillus tubingensis fungus, offering a potential solution to some of…
Ingrid Caldironi has opened a packaging free shop in London to tackle waste and promote an eco-friendly lifestyle.
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Humans make more plastic than just about anything. And it will be with us for a very long time.
iStock/pressdigitalScientists have finally measured plastic production to date, and the findings are mind-boggling. Since World…
No matter how many times I tell my local Thai restaurant that I don't want plastic forks with my take-out, I open the bag to…
En amerikansk forskergruppe har prøvd å få oversikt over menneskehetens gigantiske plastproduksjon. Det aller meste havner på…