China is one of the major contributors to the global plastic pollution. From plastic sitting in landfills to plastic bags dangling from trees, this is a huge environmental issue that requires urgent and drastic measures. The Chinese government seems to be well-aware of this so they’ve recently announced measures to […]
Indeed, single use plastics is destroying our oceans and killing our marine life and filling up our landfills; however, this student from the UK may have come up with a solution. She created a bioplastic from fish waste and algae and won the James Dyson Award for it. Lucy Hughes […]
Coca Cola won’t stop using plastic bottles as customers still want them, says the head of sustainability for the company. According to Bea Perez, they like them because they’re lightweight and reseal. The company is one of the biggest producers of plastic garbage and they’ve previously pledged to recycle as […]
In 2017, a 6-metre-long whale appeared on the shores of the Sotra Island in Norway. Emaciated and in poor health, the zoologists decided to put it down. Sadly, they discovered 30 plastic things inside the belly of the beaked whale, including plastic bread bags and sweet wrappers. Unfortunately, plastic is […]
In this unique cafe in India, you can get free food if you bring in plastic waste. India launched their first garbage cafe in the city of Ambikapur in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. This is an initiative of the Municipal Corporation and the goal is to enable quality […]
When proper protection is made for animal habitats, animals have a tendency to thrive. This simple, yet pivotal finding comes after a recent report which analyzed the effects from the US Endangered Species Act on marine animals was published in the PLOS One journal. For the purposes of the report, […]
If you ever find yourself in Rome and travelling from the Termini train station to the Vatican, don’t forget to pick up a few plastic bottles along the way to pay for your ticket. Rome is testing a new method where a subway ticket can be paid with plastic bottles. […]
Reebok has announced the launch of a plant-based performance shoe named the Forever Floatride GROW and this is one of the biggest innovations in sustainable footwear. After the brand’s vegan Cotton + Corn collection that was launched this summer, this new shoe will replace traditional materials used in running shoe […]
To help save our planet Earth and clean his home from plastic pollution, this young man from Cameroon came up with the idea to use plastic bottles and transform them into canoes, known as EcoBoats. The young man, Ismael Essome Ebone, was motivated to work on these boats after he […]
Sadly, today, the world produces more than 380 million tones of plastic on a yearly basis that ends up as a pollutant of our environment and our oceans. However, not all of the plastics we throw away ends up in the oceans- a lot of it ends up in landfills […]