Lego said on Tuesday that it plans to stop using plastic bags inside of box sets and replace them with paper ones.
The Danish company said it would start making the switch next year and aimed to…
If I asked you, what is the most common form of plastic pollution, what would you say? Plastic bottles? Straws?
While these are good guesses, they are not the correct answer. Cigarette butts are…
Retailers say they don’t have enough time to adjust to law, which is likely to come into force in early 2021.
South Australia has become the first Australian state to introduce laws banning some…
Passion
I am a multi passionate person, I’m quite adventurous, I love exploring places and just admire earth’s biodiversity. Glad it’s everywhere I go. Books are something I love to read. I also…
Until recently, microplastics that enter the ocean from paint have not received a lot of attention. There has been very little focus on the fact that unless paint residuals are collected during…
The secretive way in which plastic recycling is handled in the UK carries the potential for the next big scandal. While the government's statutory guidance is supposed to clarify who is responsible, …
Exemption for smaller shops to end, and campaigners say ‘bags for life’ are next target.
The government is to double the charge for single-use plastic carrier bags in England from 5p to 10p and end…
According to a recent Unearthed and New York Times exposé, the American Chemistry Council - which is made of, among others, petrochemical companies - wants the U.S Trade Representative to force Kenya…
The American Chemistry Council also pushed back against new global rules that will restrict the flow of plastic waste to the global south
A lobby group representing oil and chemical companies,…
There are trillions of microplastics in the ocean — they bob on the surface, float through the water column, and accumulate in clusters on the seafloor. Withplastic being so ubiquitous, it's…
1) Pollution driven by huge increase in mask sales
The promotion of mask wearing as a way to slow the spread of COVID-19 has led to an extraordinary increase in the production of disposable masks:…
UK volunteers have seen a "massive" rise in the amount of single use masks discarded on beaches, high streets, canals and rivers.
Single use personal protective equipment (PPE) is significantly…
Wind-borne microplastics are a bigger source of ocean pollution than rivers, say scientists.
More than 200,000 tonnes of tiny plastic particles are blown from roads into the oceans every year,…
In 1997, Charles Moore was sailing a catamaran from Hawaii to California when he and his crew got stuck in windless waters in the North Pacific Ocean. As they motored along, searching for a breeze…
Plan to stamp out ‘lethal’ plastic, which gets stuck in airways of wildlife and pollutes waterways, follows South Australia’s proposal.
The Queensland government will move to ban plastic straws,…
Diageo aims to begin bottling Johnnie Walker whisky using ‘world’s first’ design next year.
The multinational drinks company Diageo says it has created the world’s first paper-based spirits bottle…