A number of countries in Europe (and elsewhere) currently employ plastic bottle deposit return programs — programs which essentially pay consumers to return their used plastic bottles to grocery stores where they are collected in exchange for cash back or store credit.
YASED was a top ten finalist at the Climate Launchpad event, and we got to sit down with the team and discuss the future of plastics recycling.
New studies find plastic particles in most of world’s drinking water and in most sea salt. The problem is invisible to the eye but vital to human health.
A new company known as “The Ocean Cleanup” has reportedly raised more than $30 million over the last few years, which will be used to create a fleet of floating trash collectors to operate in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, according to CEO Boyan Slat.
More than 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics have been produced by humans since large-scale production began back in the 1950s, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.
Ocean plastic is one of the most challenging of environmental problems because it happens far out to sea, out of sight of human beings. But it threatens every creature living in the ocean and by extension any human who depends on the ocean for food.
One of the most remote islands in the world, Henderson Island in the South Pacific, is now littered with an estimated 37.7 million pieces of plastic debris, according to a new study from British researchers.
