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Coca Cola is World’s Largest Plastic Polluter for Second Year Straight
Coca Cola was once again named the world’s largest plastic polluter. For the second year in a row, the nonprofit Break Free From Plastic tagged the Atlanta-based Coke as the biggest producer of plastic waste. The environmental group had 72,541 volunteers in 51...
Sabah Whale Shark Died Of Starvation After Eating Plastic Bags
KOTA KINABALU (Sabah) — A whale shark that washed ashore on Tanjung Aru Beach in Menumbuk, Kuala Penyu, was found to have starved to death after ingesting a plastic bag. The 4.61m male whale shark carcass was found by a teacher when jogging along the beach. Sabah...
Deer in Japan Dies With Almost 9 Pounds of Plastic in Its Stomach
A female deer in Japan’s famous Nara Park was found to have consumed nearly 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds) of plastic following its death in March.
Biodegradable Sugar Cane Bottles To Replace Plastic Invented By South African Company
100% biodegradable sugar cane bottles are being manufactured by the Air Water company. The company introduced machines that make water from the air to South Africa about 12 years ago, and it has embarked on a "Zero Plastic, Zero Harm" campaign. Speaking to Kieno...
Plastic Eating Bacteria Set To Revolutionize Waste Disposal
Few of us are likely to spend much time meditating on the problem of plastic, at least until a tranquil afternoon is violently disrupted by the vision of a stray Walmart bag sailing across the azure sky. Plastic-eating bacteria could be a solution to our plastic waste...
Australia Made An Amazing Plastic Filtration System To Stop Plastic
In Australia they installed a new simple, but unbelievably effective, plastic filtration system in the Henley Reserve to help prevent plastic from polluting our oceans. The Australian city of Kwinana has done something during this past summer that many countries have...
European Parliament Votes To Ban Single-use Plastics
The directive will target common beach litter as well as polystyrene cups and those made from oxo-degradable plastics. Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA Vote by MEPs paves way for law to come into force by 2021 across EU. The European parliament has voted to ban single-use...
Thailand: Grocery Chain Replaces Plastic Produce Packaging with Banana Leaves
Plastic is replaced by banana leaves in a supermarket chain in in Chiangmai, Thailand. Doing its part to stem the tide of single-use plastics flooding into the ocean. While most supermarkets bundle their strawberries in plastic boxes, their corn in plastic shrink wrap...
San Francisco Becomes First City To Ban The Sale Of Plastic Bottles
Nowadays, the plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental burdens. But now San Francisco becomes the first city to ban the sale of plastic bottles. Statistics say that annually, we throw away enough plastic to circle the globe 4 times. Also, it has been...
Recycled Plastic Can Improve Our Roads And Clean Up Our Environment!
Recycled plastic roads are the future! This plastic road was constructed in Enfield, England. The world has a plastics problem Every minute the world buys one million of single use plastic bottles. We are not only using too much of it, but we also recycle far too...
Reduce Your Plastic Waste In 2019 With 10 Easy ways
Guardian environment correspondent Sandra Laville explains why we can’t recycle our way out of the plastics problem, and suggests ways to reduce your footprint. Plastic has become perhaps the most demonised material of the last 12 months, as the scale...
North Jakarta mangrove areas left littered with plastic
Mangrove areas littered with plastic and styrofoam trash in area of community unit (RW) 07, Marunda, Cilincing, North Jakarta, cannot be cleaned up because of a lack of access to the site, locals have said. Marunda resident Aan said local clean-up workers were only...
Whale shark eating plastic in asia
This horrific image of a whale shark about to eat a plastic bag in an ocean of filth will burn into your retina. This picture was shot by Rich Carey. Asia is one of the biggest contributors to the plastic soup in our oceans. Also read: Dead sperm whale found in...
Dead sperm whale found in Indonesia had ingested 6kg of plastic
A dead sperm whale that washed ashore in a national park in Indonesia had nearly 6kg (13 lbs) of plastic waste in its stomach, park officials say. Items found included 115 drinking cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags and two flip-flops. The carcass of the 9.5m...
The world’s population buys one million plastic bottles every single minute
We’re drowning in plastic bottles. New statistics released by The Guardian reveal that humans purchase one million plastic bottles every minute. And that adds up to nearly 500 billion bottles a year. While it’s true many of these bottles can be recycled, it’s becoming...
Cameroon Student Recycles Plastic Bottles Into Boats
Humanity has a plastic bottle addiction – people around the world purchase one million a minute, and many bottles wind up in the ocean instead of recycling bins. Cameroon-based nonprofit Madiba & Nature is pioneering a creative use...
Plastic found inside lobster being prepared for meal in Edinburgh
These shocking photographs show plastic in the stomach of a lobster which was being prepared for a posh meal. The images show the extent of plastic pollution in the seas. Chef Claudia Escobar spotted the orange rubber tubing inside a lobster caught in a creel in the...
Malaysia issues permanent ban on import of plastic waste
Permanent ban PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has issued a permanent ban on the import of plastic waste effective Friday (Oct 26), says Zuraida Kamaruddin. The Housing and Local Government Minister said the country would also be phasing out the import of other types of plastic....
The surprising solution to ocean plastic
Can we find a solution dor the problem of ocean plastic and end extreme poverty at the same time? That's the ambitious goal of The Plastic Bank. A worldwide chain of stores where everything from school tuition to cooking fuel and more is available for purchase. This...
