Government of Canada supports six new research projects to explore impacts of plastic pollution on Indigenous communities

Today, the Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature, announced nearly $2.4 million in research funding to help deepen our understanding of the social, cultural ...
BusinessMirror

Plastic pollution hits PHL devt blueprint

Globally, plastic pollution reaches roughly 20 million tons annually, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks dumped into the ...
Windspeaker.com

Canada funds research into plastic pollution in Indigenous communities

Six Indigenous-led projects have been approved for nearly $2.4 million in new federal research funding to study the social, ...
news.ucsb.edu

A new study in Science maps out a comprehensive plan to eliminate plastic pollution by 2050

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

A lot of 'recycled' plastic is being burned overseas -- and causing widespread pollution linked to health problems

It's easy to think of recycling as the solution to plastic pollution, but the vast majority of plastic waste now ends up in ...
New York Post

Plastic-eating worm discovered — could help reduce pollution ‘faster and more efficiently’, scientists say

Eating plastic, it’s fantastic! Scientists might have found an unlikely solution to the trash problem choking our planet — a plastic-eating insect, which was described in the journal Nature. The ...
TravelPulse

Monty Halls and HX Foundation Launch Citizen Science Project to Combat Marine Pollution

WHY IT RATES: Monty Halls and the HX Foundation join forces to launch a groundbreaking citizen science initiative to tackle marine pollution. —Janeen Christoff, TravelPulse Managing Editor A ...
Bernews

Marine Plastic Debris Transformed Into Whale Art

More than 1,000 individual plastic items collected from Bermuda’s shores has been transformed into “Whaleen,” a life-size ...
Phys.org

Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds

Washing household plastic containers in a dishwasher releases nanoplastic and microplastic pollution into wastewater, University of Queensland researchers have found. Dr. Elvis Okoffo from UQ's ...
Science Daily

A shocking amount of plastic is floating in city air

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating through urban air, far exceeding earlier estimates. Road dust and rainfall ...
Daily Express

Plastic pollution crisis: Plastic could OUTWEIGH fish in the ocean by 2050 - claim

The group known as Earth Island Institute has filed a lawsuit in California against the likes of Coke, Pepsi and Nestlé among others as it believes the firms knowingly mislead the public about how ...
Los Angeles Times

We’re losing the race against plastic, but there’s a solution

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...