Patagonia’s Major Microplastic Problem
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When you buy a fleece jacket from Patagonia, you know you’re buying from a company that cares about the planet. But these days…
When you buy a fleece jacket from Patagonia, you know you’re buying from a company that cares about the planet. But these days…
(Por Anna Napolitano*) – As imagens de praias paradisíacas soterradas por garrafas PET e as cenas de animais marinhos nadando…
by Keiron Roberts, University of Portsmouth; Fay Couceiro, University of Portsmouth, and Muhammad Ali, University of Portsmouth…
Hace poco más de cuatro años, el investigador neozelandés Laurent Lebreton revelaba en un estudio que la zona de máxima…
While exciting, it won’t solve the plastic problem, the researchers said
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Colonialism was motivated by the promise of plundering the environment and subjugating populations. Its legacy makes far more…
This South African artist is using plastic waste to create impressive, highly textured portraits in his studio in Booysens…
The best ways to reduce littering are those that help people or local governments save time or money – this includes having…
Here’s some good environmental news – local governments and local actions have slashed the plastic on our beaches.
by Sarah J. Morath, Wake Forest University Plastic pollution is accumulating worldwide, on land and in the oceans. According to…
Recycling and waste management aren’t enough to address our plastic pollution problem. Plastic pollution is accumulating…
Plastic trash floating on the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 21, 2020 Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty…
COP26, the UN’s climate change conference billed as “the world’s last best chance” to prevent the most disastrous effects of…
Ocean Cleanup shows meager results in cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Barge.
Researchers find fragments in innards of species that have adapted to develop in open ocean, which has highly polluted…
They are the kind of stats that chill us to the bone, then make us white-hot angry. We use 500 million plastic straws every day.
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Two academics from Bath University explain how chemical recycling can provide a more sustainable alternative to the mechanical…
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10 million tonnes of plastic ends up in the ocean each year. Other than the small proportion on the surface, scientists don't…
New research from Spain shows that naturally occurring balls of seagrass fibre are catching and removing up to 900 million…
Up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans every year, and plastic pollution is now the biggest killer of marine life.
Authors: Jodie L. Rummer, Associate Professor & Principal Research Fellow, James Cook University; Bridie JM Allan, Lecturer/resea…
Human activity such as overfishing, climate change and plastic is having a huge impact on the Pacific Ocean, killing millions…
In a new study, an international research group found the first mechanistic model that quantifies the effects of ingested…
China and Japan are among the “many, many countries” flooding U.S. beaches with plastic waste. At least, that’s what President…
Lucy Goodchild explores the findings and attention around a piece of research published recently that caught the public’s…
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Finally the message may be getting through. The recycling fairy alone won’t save us from the plastics crisis. We must confront…
By Deirdre McKay, Keele…
Bacterialworld - A blog about bacteria: from scientific studies to vivid stories about the fascinating bacterial…
Новое исследование указывает на недооценнный масштаб микропластикового загрязнения
A study from the University of Exeter shows that 67% of the sharks examined contained microplastics and other man-made fiber in…
Scientists can now identify plastic in coastal water from pictures taken by European Space Agency (ESA) satellites
Want to know how much plastic is entering the ocean every year? I regret to inform you that nobody knows. A commonly cited…
How to Reduce Plastic and Other Ocean Pollution Simultaneously Comments|Add Comment|PrintUp to 13 million metric tons of…
Turtley disgusting! Thai vets pull a 12-inch piece of discarded plastic bag from the back of a green turtle that he mistook for…
'Great ocean garbage patches' might be just the tip of the iceberg.
The crustaceans' guts pulverize plastics into tiny bits that can be consumed by even smaller creatures at the base of the ocean…
Trisia Farrelly, Massey…
Halloween is for dressing up, carving pumpkins, and eating spooky amounts of candy. Each year, Americans buy 600 million pounds…
A new study suggests that one form of plastic might not take as long to break down in the ocean as previously thought.
In recent years, the prevalence of plastics in the world’s oceans has become a major environmental issue. From drinking straws…
Governments need better information on which types of plastic generate the most pollution — citizens can help, writes Dalhousie…
The plastic we use to buy plastic that winds up in the ocean may someday, too, wind up in the ocean. But not if this card-making…
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…
On the small Scottish island of Scarp, beachcombing, recycling, and reusing plastic is a way of life. Designers, take note. …
Ian Lambert explores different options for re-using the plastic clogging the world's oceans. Beachcombing has long been a part…
Beijing is at the helm when it comes to shaping what a marine industrial revolution will mean for the health of the seas.
The global focus on plastic pollution isn't a distraction from other planetary issues, writes Dal researcher Tony Walker.
Among environmental activists, plastic bags have a very bad reputation, second only to Starbucks' plastic straws. Made of low-de…
Last January, Theresa May declared ‘war on plastic waste’. Now it’s the BBC’s turn, with the broadcaster airing ‘War on Plastic’…
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Providing input to the June 2019 G20 Summit in Japan, the S20 science academies highlighted climate change and marine plastic…
Written in collaboration with Tomoko Yoshida. Plastic has become an integral part of our lives…. But with that has emerged the…
Eco-innovations involving cockroaches and cow dung have the potential to clean up urban life.
A dead whale has washed up in the Philippines with 88 pounds of garbage in its stomach, perhaps the most human waste ever found…
Balloons and balloon fragments are the deadliest kinds of marine pollution for seabirds, killing almost one in five birds that…
Researchers who examined 50 marine mammals that had washed up on Britain’s shores say they found microplastics in the guts of…
Researchers who examined 50 marine mammals that had washed up on Britain’s shores say they found microplastics in the guts of…
What are plastics? All plastics are composed of carbon atoms connected to one another in a chain-like structure, with mostly…
A study conducted with participants from across the globe found that every single stool sample collected tested positive for…
Indonesia is the world's second largest source of marine plastic waste, following China. Topics: Indonesia, China
MANILA, Philippines — Freedom Island is drowning in garbage. The last coastal frontier in the Philippine capital provides…
This article was originally published in Environmental Health News on August 13…
Plastic is everywhere: In your home, your office, your school — and your ocean. Among the top 10 kinds of trash picked up…
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Straws may not be the worst type of litter. But they are remarkably good at escaping from the waste stream and into the wild.
Fast-food restaurants and coffee shops are banishing the straw. While it may seem like a small measure, your pessimism isn't…
90% of New Zealands's seabirds are threatened with extinction.
Stephanie B. Borrelle, Auckland University of…
Plastic straws are devastating to marine life, and Starbucks has taken notice
Those little plastic straws that you get at virtually every restaurant in America have become a huge problem for the world's…
We're drowning in plastics, writes Dal prof Tony Walker. With governments setting un-ambitious targets, corporations are now…
From the circular economy to taxation and jute bags, here's how to mitigate plastic's harmful impacts.
“In this sense, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is, in the end, merely the most dramatic outward symptom of a far deeper…
By Carl Safina and Sylvia…
На дне Марианской впадины обнаружили обрывки пластикового пакета, говорится в Marine Policy.
Oakland is now the latest Bay Area city to consider a proposal to bar food vendors from serving plastic straws unless requested.
Pendant des années, les scientifiques ont suivi une grande accumulation de déchets flottants, principalement des morceaux de…
Water sold in plastic bottles may contain enough microplastics to harm human health, according to new research.
On March 3, YouTube user cheeseandjamsandwich posted a two and a half minute video of himself swimming through an ocean of…
The ocean is incredibly vulnerable at the moment. Humans are producing billions of tons of plastic waste and climate change is…
Considering we pump millions of tons of plastic into the oceans every year, there is a hell of a lot we don't know about its…
As plastic debris drifts through the ocean, it accumulates a coating of algae and bacteria. That coating smells delectable …
As a chain of 19 nurseries in the South of England announce they are banning glitter because of environmental concerns, the anti…
By Tim Wallace12 October 2017(Cosmos) – Just 10 rivers – eight of them in Asia – may be responsible for dumping almost four…
ENVIRONMENT Just 10 rivers may be responsible for dumping almost four million tonnes of plastic into the ocean every year. (Cosmo…
Every day in China, tens of millions of food containers, plastic bags, and disposable chopsticks damage the environment.
Un nuovo studio ha rivelato che la maggior parte della plastica che finisce negli oceani arriva da 10 corsi d’acqua, la maggior…
Few people get to witness the breadth and wonder of underwater life, from coral to kelp to fish and sea anemones. SCUBA divers…
A larvacean can capture tiny floating bits of plastic, enabling the pinkie-sized critter to eliminate the plastic as waste that…
By Erica…
Humans make more plastic than just about anything. And it will be with us for a very long time.
More than 8 billion metric tons of plastic have been made since the 1950s, researchers found. Because it does not degrade, most…
The REV can collect and melt 5 tons of plastic a day. Read More
Un biólogo indonesio fabrica un bioplástico a base de almidón de yuca que se disuelve en agua y es…