Please read Forbes most recent article: We’re Now At A Million Plastic Bottles Per Minute – 91% Of Which Are Not Recycled. At the very end of the article they say this: Globally, we will have to manage the... Read more
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Man figures out how to make bioplastic out of food waste, rather than food, making it as cheap as regular plastic. With all the single-use plastic bans coming into effect around the world, there is a demand for biodegradable... Read more
New Zealand’s ‘Nude’ Produce Is Flying Off The Shelves (by Lucy Jones) Breaking news: people are more likely to buy fruit and vegetables that aren’t wrapped in plastic. It has taken several years, and a pretty huge anti-plastic movement,... Read more
HLN.BE/ Boeren sturen blikjes terug naar de politici: “Onze koeien sterven erdoor, statiegeld is de oplossing” MAARKEDAL De politici moeten het statiegeld op blikjes zo snel mogelijk invoeren, vinden landbouworganisatie Algemeen Boerensyndicaat (ABS) en milieuorganisatie Recycling Netwerk Benelux. Samen... Read more
they’re among the 414 million pieces of plastic found washed ashore on the remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean, according to new research. The study, which was published in the journal Scientific Reports Thursday, found that the... Read more
The Scottish government has outlined its plans for a deposit return scheme for some plastic drinking containers, cans and glass. Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham told MSPs at Holyrood that a "return to retail" model would be adopted. She added... Read more
Three metric tons (6,613 pounds) of garbage have been collected from the mountain in just the first two weeks of the scheme, according to AFP. That’s about the weight of two SUVs, or a large male hippo. The task... Read more
Some 40 million disposable cups get tossed in the city each year, according to the city council, almost one per resident per day. So in January, the city said it will require coffee shops to charge an extra 25-cents... Read more
China’s recycling ban has sent America’s plastic to Malaysia. Now they don’t want it — so what next? "There’s no magical land of recycling with rainbows and unicorns. It’s much grittier than that," says Martin Bourque, executive director at... Read more
On Earth Day, 2019, the National Science Foundation has awarded Litterati a second grant in the amount of $750,000 to advance its machine learning and further its mission to create a litter-free world by using data to plot and... Read more