In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zachary Shahan, Director and CEO of CleanTechnica, and Scott Cooney, Founder and CEO of Pono Home, sit down to talk about plastics.
The other day, I saw a tweet from retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore in which he asked our state’s office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness to force the U.S. Coast Guard to clean up the plastic trash along the Mississippi River. “Don’t Trash Louisiana,” he said in the tweet and shared pictures of the river filled with trash.
Plastic bag bans are the subject of discussion in state and local governments across America as people struggle with how to respond to the scourge of plastic waste.
Amanda Kistler, Director of Communications and Development at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), has shared a new report with CleanTechnica. The full report, Plastic & Climate The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet, was released on May 15, 2019. Below is a summary of the report and several highlights from it.
It’s easy to lose sight of good news amid the barrage of negative stories about the threats facing the ocean—everything from growing plastic pollution to dying coral reefs. However, there is a lot to celebrate when you look more closely at ocean-related developments.
The tragic and harmfully toxic repercussions for Malawians using plastic to light fires.
Last month, we talked about the online platform Kialo and how it is being used to host and facilitate crowdsourced debates on topics as diverse as plastic pollution, whether EVs are better than gasmobiles, the ethics of animal cloning, and whether or not the Muppets Christmas movie is the best Christmas movie ever. You’re welcome and I’m sorry for that last one.
The latest US midterm is over — or nearly over — and Democratic candidates had a record wave of support from voters, but there’s still plenty of misunderstanding to clear up. We’ve gone through decades of misinformation campaigns, gaslighting, and political dystrophy. One blue wave doesn’t mean we’ve got everything in order.
One topic I was recently inspired to address is a simple one, but one that seems to skate under the radar of public consciousness.
Lightweight plastic “the most ubiquitous consumer item in the world” and a bane on our world and future. Some locations have had success moving away from them, but what is the best replacement?
a man by the name of Sam Ngumba Ngaruiya has in recent times been working with locals in and around the town of Malindi to gather up and recycle ubiquitous plastic pollution into construction materials.
