According to a major survey of hundreds of recycling facilities throughout the US, a lot of the plastic items which Americans put in their bins for recycling aren’t being recycled at all! The survey was done by Greenpeace and its results showed that out of the 367 recycling facilities surveyed, […]
Nike is one of the latest multinational brands to launch sustainably-made sneakers. They’re a part of their new sneaker collection that will debut this spring or ‘Space Hippie’. This collection will offer several vegan, sustainable sneakers that are created using recycled waste from plastic bottles and textile waste. They’re promoting […]
Will we finally be able to say goodbye to the harmful single-use plastics? This multipurpose reusable banana leaf packaging may hold the answer to the global plastic pollution. Unfortunately, a mountain of disposable plastics is being thrown on the daily whereas there’s a huge garbage patch floating in the Pacific. […]
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 […]
When he was 19, Boyan Slat, today a successful and well-known entrepreneur, founded Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization whose goal is to eliminate harmful plastics from the oceans. His organization created a device twice the size of Texas to remove garbage from the Garbage Patch in the Great Pacific. The […]
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 […]
Thailand decided to start the New Year with a ban on plastic bags from major stores. This solution is a part of a campaign by the government and retailers for a complete ban in 2021 as an effort to lower the waste and debris reduction from seas. In the last […]
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 […]