Picking up all the plastic waste from beaches by hand can be a tiresome and time-consuming process. The BeBot, a solar-powered robot, is there to speed up the process. At beach cleanups, workers or volunteers usually pick up trash like plastic water bottles or packaging for food. However, the sand […]
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India Says Goodbye To Single-Use Plastic and the Rest of the World Should Too
Narendra Modi, Indian PM, had a bold plan to fight off single-use plastic. In August during Independence Day, he had said he would prohibit single-use plastic throughout the country. He addressed the crowd of thousands who were gathered for his Independence Day speech to take the big step together on […]
Costa Rica Aims To Become Carbon And Plastic-Free Country By 2021
There have been a lot of articles in the last months featuring titles that were claiming that Costa Rica will become carbon-free and plastic-free country. According to these articles, Costa Rica was set to remove single-use plastic by the year of 2021 and thus, the first country to be dedicated […]