• Sustainability

New WWF Report Highlights Challenges and Solutions in Corporate Plastic Management

• Ocean Plastic
• plastic pollution
• plastics
• ReSource
• WWF

A little over a year ago the World Wildlife Fund launched ReSource: Plastic an activation hub to help an initial group of major corporations meet their plastics commitments through better data and measurable action. Today, WWF released a report called Transparent 2020 which examines the plastic footprints of these companies and provides a detailed look […]

• Sustainability

Governments are Committed to Tackling Ocean Plastic, They Just Need to Stick to It

• microplastic
• Ocean Plastic
• plastic pollution

A recently released policy analysis from Duke University revealed that over the past decade, governments at every level have taken actions to prevent plastic waste from making it into the ocean. As Phys explained, the analysis finds, however, that the vast majority of new policies have focused specifically on plastic shopping bags and more data […]

• Sustainability

More Refillable Bottles, Less Ocean Plastic

• marine debris
• Ocean Plastic
• plastic
• sustainability

It’s not news that we’re in the midst of a plastic pollution crisis. As consumers become more conscious and cities try to tackle mounting piles of waste, plastics manufacturers are making no plans to slow down the production of virgin plastic. That’s a big problem and one outlined in Oceana’s most recent report on ocean […]

• Ocean

A New Venture Fund Raises $100M From Plastic Makers/Users to Stop Ocean Trash

• impact investment
• marine debris
• Ocean Plastic

An investment firm called Closed Loop Ventures (they’re the folks behind the NextGen Cup challenge for Starbucks and McDonalds) has raised $100m USD for a fund to make early-stage equity investments into sustainable consumer goods companies, advanced recycling technologies, and services related to eliminating ocean plastic pollution, Bloomberg News reports.  Rob Kaplan, the Fund’s Founder […]

• Sustainability

Hero of the Week: Lilly Satidtanasarn

• Ocean Plastic
• plastic pollution
• Thailand

Called “Thailand’s Greta Thunberg” 12-year-old Lilly Satidtanasarn has been fighting to stop the use of single-use plastics in her home country–which is one of the leading contributors to ocean plastic pollution. As the Jakarta Post reported, “In June, Lilly won her first victory: she persuaded Central, a major supermarket in Bangkok, to stop giving out […]

• Sustainability

Ocean Plastic Cleanup Device Up and Running After Previous Setbacks

• microplastic
• Ocean Plastic
• oceans
• plastic

Twenty-five-year-old entrepreneur Boyan Slat’s ocean clean up device is finally collecting trash after breaking apart late last year.

The Takeaway: This technology likely won’t solve the ocean plastic pollution crisis but the world is finally beginning to think through how we tackle our plastic addiction and that’s a good thing.