Nearly every day for four years, members of a Texas environmental group fanned out on their kayaks around a bay collecting plastic pellets that had washed ashore after being discharged from a factory. Their efforts paid off as the plant owner has agreed to pay a $50 million settlement to resolve Clean Water Act litigation.
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Skipping school to glide through a dirty Bangkok canal on a paddleboard, Lilly fishes out rubbish in her mission to clean up Thailand, where the average person uses eight plastic bags every day.
Read moreGovernments around the world are grappling with how to tackle the scourge of single-use plastic, but for the people of Bangun trash equals cash.
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Scientists discovered just how far reaching human pollution has become when they discovered an “enormous” amount of microplastics in the Arctic snow, according to new research released Wednesday.
Read moreTrying to hold support in the manufacturing towns that helped him win the White House in 2016, President Donald Trump is showcasing growing efforts to capitalize on western Pennsylvania’s natural gas deposits by turning gas into plastics.
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A study released Wednesday in the scientific journal Matter offers a biotechnological strategy for purifying microplastics in water systems before the contaminants can enter bodies of water and threaten the health of marine and human life.
Read moreA trade group for the plastics industry failed to persuade the European General Court on Thursday that the industrial chemical BPA should not be classified as toxic.
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Now found in humans’ bloodstreams and deep in oceans, plastic’s proliferation is growing exponentially: Yearly global production is expected to exceed 1 billion tons by 2050. But there are glimmers of change within the deluge. A movement calling on mankind to wean itself off plastic bags turns 10 on Wednesday.
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Researchers say they may have identified a new kind of plastic pollution in the sea and they’re calling it “plasticrust.”
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A study of whales and dolphins that have washed up dead in Greece over a 20-year period has found alarmingly high levels of plastic trash — mostly bags — in the animals’ stomachs, which can condemn them to a slow and painful death.
Read moreThe average American consumes more than 70,000 pieces of microplastics per year, though the health effects of that consumption are unclear.
Read moreMalaysia will send back some 3,300 tons of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries such as the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia in a move to avoid becoming a dumping ground for rich nations, Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said Tuesday.
Read moreTurning the screws on marine pollution and environmental health hazards, the Council of the European Union signed off on a plan to ban many single-use plastic items and set limits on potentially harmful contaminants in fertilizer products.
Read moreA new study released Thursday reports that the beaches of Australian islands are littered with an alarming volume of plastic debris.
Read moreAs several Florida cities try to take the plastic drinking straws out of residents’ frozen cocktails, state lawmakers have other ideas.
Read moreEarth, meet Polo. Polo Ralph Lauren on Thursday launched a version of its iconic polo shirt made entirely of recycled plastic bottles and dyed through a process that uses zero water.
Read moreNew Yorkers will soon see some big changes after the state Senate signed off this weekend on a ban on plastic shopping bags as well as congestion pricing when they passed the state’s 2020 budget.
Read moreThe World Wildlife Foundation is sounding the alarm over plastics in the Mediterranean Sea after an over 26-foot sperm whale was found dead off Sardinia with 48.5 pounds of plastic in its belly.
Read moreScientists and researchers around the world strive to rid Earth’s oceans of the plague of plastic, with the latest effort from a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory who found a process called ‘upcycling’ could help alleviate the problem.
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