July 10, 2019
Stories tagged "plastic"
One Funny Thing: Grocery Store’s Plan to Reduce Plastic Bags Backfires
When East West Market in Vancouver, British Columbia attempted to get their customers to bring reusable bags and say no to plastic ones, they never knew that their big plan would backfire. The market began offering single-use plastic bags with embarrassing slogans...July 9, 2019
Hawaii’s Beaches Get a Helping Hand
Hoola One, a machine developed by mechanical engineering students at the Université de Sherbrooke, is being used to clean up one of Hawaii’s dirtiest beaches by filtering out microplastics. As Atlas Obscura explained, Kamilo Beach was formerly a lovely white sand...June 19, 2019
Yikes, We’re Eating 2,000 Pieces of Plastic Each Week
A new study put out by the University of Newcastle in Australia has revealed that humans are eating, swallowing or breathing in about 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic each week, an amount equal to the weight of one credit card. That’s some literal food for thought...June 14, 2019
Interview of the Week: Dune Ives
Dune Ives is the Executive Director of the Lonely Whale Foundation, a non-profit organization raising awareness for ocean health. At the Lonely Whale, Dune designs and leads change-making ocean conservation initiatives to address key drivers of environmental...June 5, 2019
One Cool Thing: How Do YOU Hydrate?
It’s World Ocean Day on Saturday, and these “plastic service announcements” from the Lonely Whale Foundation with some pretty cool cameos are rolling out to raise awareness about the damage to the environment caused by 500 billion single-use plastic...June 4, 2019
How Can Companies Earnestly Tackle Ocean Plastic?
Marine plastic pollution, as we often mention here, is a staggering problem–one which left unaddressed will ensure that there is more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans by 2050. While companies have announced initiatives to combat the plastic waste...May 31, 2019
EU Votes NO on Single-Use Plastics
The European Parliament voted this past week to ban all single-use plastic items, including straws, food containers, cotton buds, and cutlery by 2021. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the ban; 560 MEPs voting in favor of the agreement, 35 voting against it, and...May 29, 2019
One Alarming Thing: Plastic Particles Found In Rainwater
It’s raining plastic! A recent study of the chemical composition of rain in the Boulder to Denver corridor and in the mountains of Colorado that was conducted by a scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey produced some surprising and disturbing results —...May 22, 2019