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 […]
Designed to help in the fight against ocean pollution, the Manta sailboat uses several surface collection systems. This pioneering and eco-friendly sailboat operates at 75 percent without fossil fuels. It’s a multipurpose boat that’s moved by renewable energies and it’s a new way to keep our oceans safe. The preservation […]
Did you know that regular diapers take around 500 years to decompose? Unfortunately, per a year, trash cans have more than 18 billion disposable diapers waiting to be transported into the landfills. This number is only for the US. So, you can imagine how bigger the number is for the […]
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 […]
In order to reduce the usage of plastic straws, last year, Starbucks launched their sippy cups. The coffee chain also announced that they plan on removing plastic straws from their stores by the year of 2020. They aren’t just making straws from alternative materials, but cups with an innovative lid […]
Unfortunately, new findings acquired by a WWF report show that the average individual consumes 5 grams of plastic on a weekly basis or the equivalent of a credit card. The researchers point out that people consume up to 102,000 pieces of plastic that are smaller than one millimeter which is […]
If we want to do the right thing, it’s never late. And, there’s no better example for this than the Pat Smith, a 70-year-old woman whose life changed after she watched a documentary about the impact of plastic pollution on our environment and cleaned 52 beaches in the UK in […]
A photographer caught the disastrous damage being inflicted to our oceans from piles of plastic and Styrofoam near a Caribbean island. This sea of plastic proves the realness of the problem with plastic pollution, experts indicate. Caroline Power, who specializes in underwater photography, dedicated her career to increase awareness about […]