UK Supermarkets Caught in Plastic Packaging: Study
Britain’s major supermarket chains remain big users of plastic packaging that blights the environment, despite efforts to cut down, according to a study published on Tuesday.
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Deadliest Catch: Thailand’s ‘Ghost’ Fishing Nets Help Covid Fight
Underwater divers in plastic-choked waters off the coast of Thailand snip through discarded nets tangled around a reef — a new initiative helping protect marine life and aiding the fight against coronavirus.
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From Macaques to Crabs, Wildlife Faces Threat From Face Masks
Masks that helped save lives during the coronavirus pandemic are proving a deadly hazard for wildlife, with birds and marine creatures ensnared in the staggering number of discarded facial coverings littering animal habitats.
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Washing Your Clothes Can Create Arctic Microplastic Pollution
Households in Europe and North America are flooding the oceans with plastic pollution simply by washing their clothes, scientists said Tuesday after research found the majority of microplastics in Arctic seawater were polyester fibers.
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Goodbye Picnic Plastic: Bamboo-Sugarcane Tableware Biodegrades in 60 Days
Once the coronavirus pandemic is over, we’ll be able to picnic for the planet without guilt: Scientists searching for biodegradable alternatives to plastic have developed food containers made from sugarcane and bamboo that decompose within 60 days.
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Feds Reconsidering Permit for Massive Plastics Plant in Louisiana
The Army Corps of Engineers will temporarily suspend a permit it issued for a $9.4 billion plastics complex in Louisiana as it takes another look at the project’s environmental impacts, government lawyers said in a motion filed Wednesday.
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US the World Champion of Plastic Waste
Chalk up another point in the column of American exceptionalism (and outsourcing): The United States produces more plastic waste than
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Bottle-Fed Babies Ingest ‘Millions’ of Microplastics: Study
Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.
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14 Million Tons of Microplastics on Seafloor: Australian Study
The world’s seafloor is littered with an estimated 14 million tons of microplastics, broken down from the masses of rubbish entering the oceans every year, according to Australia’s national science agency.
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EU at Risk of Missing Plastic Recycling Targets
The European Union is facing a growing waste problem and is at risk of missing its plastic recycling targets for 2025 and 2030 as more stringent export rules will be implemented next year, the bloc’s independent auditor warned Tuesday.
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England Bans Plastic Straws After Pandemic-Linked Delay
A ban on plastic straws, drink stirrers and cotton buds took effect Thursday in England after a six-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Lego to Ditch Plastic Bags for Paper Ones in Its Boxed Sets
Lego said Tuesday that it will stop using plastic bags inside its boxed sets and replace them with paper ones.
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Oil Industry Placing Risky Bet on Plastics: Report
Big oil producers are pinning their future growth on the world’s insatiable appetite for plastic, researchers said Friday, in a “bet” on society’s failure to tackle disposable consumption that risks stranding billions of dollars in petrochemical investments.
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Oil Companies Accused of Wanting to Dump Plastics in Africa
The oil industry has asked the United States to pressure Kenya to change its world-leading stance against the plastic waste that litters Africa, according to environmentalists who fear the continent will be used as a dumping ground.
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Sri Lanka to Ban Imports of Plastic Goods to Protect Elephants
Sri Lanka will ban the import of most plastic products in a bid to protect wild elephants and deer that die eating the waste, the environment minister announced Friday.
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Atlantic Plastic Levels Far Higher Than Thought: Study
There may be more plastic floating just beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean today than the estimated total weight of plastic waste dumped in it since 1950, new research showed Tuesday.
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Battle Lines Drawn Over Plan for Louisiana Plastics Factory
Conservationists demanded an injunction Tuesday to block construction of a Taiwanese plastics plant in an already-polluted stretch of Louisiana known as Cancer Alley.
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Environmental Activists Decry Felony Arrests as Intimidation
Two environmental activists with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade bonded out of jail Thursday evening after being arrested on felony terrorizing charges that stem from a December incident in which they left a sealed box containing plastic pellets on the doorstep of an oil and gas lobbyist.
Read moreScientists Find Tons of Microplastics Polluting National Parks
More than 1,000 tons of microplastics deposit on protected lands in the western U.S. each year, equivalent to more than 123 million plastic water bottles.
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Ocean Currents Found to Embed Microplastics in Seafloor
While most people think of the swirling patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean when they think of plastic pollution, what’s on the surface is just 1% of all the plastic trash in Earth’s seas.
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