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The traditional dhow is made from wood, but an ambitious new project is making waves in the waters of East Africa.
A dhow made entirely from recycled plastic aims to go on at least two expeditions this year.
Its first voyage... Read more
It’s the early 1960s. Girls are fainting over the Beatles, Sean Connery is James Bond and a revolutionary trend is sweeping the nation: Plastic.
Plastic is about to have its breakthrough moment in the food industry. The plastic milk jug,... Read more
The local government of the county of Talamanca in the Costa Rican Caribbean has officially banned the use of plastic straws in all its districts and communities.
Through a press release given by Yorleni Obando, from the Municipality of Talamanca,... Read more
Beau Oldenburg and Ritzo ten Cate were on holiday on the Dutch island of Terschelling when they spotted hundreds of shoes washed up on the beach, as far as the eyes could see.
"First, we thought it was funny," Oldenburg... Read more
Nearly all of Alderney's 8,000 gannet nests are contaminated with plastic pollution, island conservationists say.
As recently as 20 years ago, only small quantities were seen in the nests, the Wildlife Trust said.
The plastic build-up in the breeding colonies is... Read more
AKARTA: Indonesia's holiday island Bali has enacted a ban on single-use plastics such as shopping bags, styrofoam and straws in efforts to curb pollution in its waters, according to a report by the Jakarta Post on Tuesday (Dec 25).
The... Read more
As Popular Science has reported before, plastic is a big problem: microplastics have shown up in our poop and in Arctic sea ice; as plastics degrade they spill out greenhouse gases; and of course, they hang around forever. Single-use... Read more
Retailers and producers of packaging will be forced to pay the full cost of collecting and recycling it under the government’s new waste strategy.
Supermarkets and other retailers could be charged penalties for putting difficult to recycle packaging – such... Read more
Look again and it’s just a mesh of plastic bottles and netting. What’s going on here?
In May, the Forum produced a video on Guatemala’s ‘biofences’ -- plastic bottles meshed together to form barriers across rivers to trap plastic and... Read more