Got Solutions? National Geographic & Sky Ocean Ventures Launch Competition For Alternatives To Single-Use Plastics
Teams and individuals will compete for one year to propose their innovative solutions to the world’s plastic crisis.
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Corporate Insistence On Single-Use Plastics & Protecting The Environment
Why are so many corporations pledging to reduce single-use plastics instead of eliminating them altogether now?
EVs Or Not, We’ll Always Have Petrochemicals — Or Not!
Global oil and gas giants are hedging agains EVs and renewable energy by growing their petrochemicals business, but other corporate giants can thwart them.
Should All Plastic Be Banned? Join The Discussion On Kialo!
Engaging in an honest, factual and logical debate isn’t always possible, but the folks over at Kialo are on a mission to maximize the likelihood of a positive outcome, whatever the topic may be. Their platform was built to allow just about anyone to have a structured online debate about just about anything.
Fashion & Cosmetics: The Beauty Of A Plastic-Free Lifestyle
An interview with social entrepreneur and plastic pollution activist Shilpi Chhotray
Ocean Plastic Cleanup Project Is Better News Than You Might Think
Boyan’s vision could have fallen apart at multiple points over the past five years. Reisser’s study or someone else’s could have shown a much more even distribution of plastics through dozens of meters of water column. Plastics could have degraded more quickly in ocean water and sunlight. He could have failed to capture many people’s imaginations.
Scientists Develop Recycling Process That Could Lead To “Zero Waste” Cell Phones
Researchers have developed a process to separate fiberglass from resin. This was a task that had proved nearly impossible earlier — and the primary reason the two substances are nearly impossible to recycle. They must be separated to make them reusable. Scientists hope their research will be used to develop a “zero-waste” cell phone.
UK Shipped 2.7 Million Tonnes Of Plastic Scrap To China Since 2012: What Now? Crisis…
Everyone needs to more determinedly limit or do away with all plastic choices — especially those that go ridiculously far and cross an ocean to be recycled (polluting on the way). The UK is facing an immediate crisis of excess plastic waste. The Chinese said there is to be a halt in taking plastic trash from the UK, which has shipped 2.7 tonnes of plastic scrap for recycling in the past few years to China.
2 UK Supermarkets Back Plastic Bottle Deposit Return Scheme Rollout
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.
New Catalyst Unlocks Industrial Chemicals For Making Plastics From Biomass
Researchers at Osaka University have created a catalyst that breaks down chemicals derived from biomass into industrial feedstocks for making plastics. The process is inexpensive and carbon neutral.
