May 17th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
Avantium, a company based in the Netherlands, is experimenting with biodegradable plant-based plastics that could replace the single-use plastic bottles used by soda and beer manufacturers.
January 27th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
More companies are turning away from single-use plastics as public consciousness about plastic pollution increases.
January 23rd, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
Coca-Cola's head of sustainability told the World Economic Forum this week her company has no intention of reducing the number of single use plastic bottles it churns out every year. Instead, it will increase recycling efforts worldwide. Is that a plan?
January 20th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
China is taking a big step forward in the war on single-use plastic. It is banning most plastic bags this year and cuts in plastic utensils and carry-out containers over the next 5 years.
October 3rd, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
A small Himalayan village had a creative solution to the Indian Prime Minister's urge for people to stop using single-use plastics across the country
September 30th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Customers can order products from a variety of companies that are shipped to them in returnable and reusable containers packed inside a reusable blue Loop container. When the products are consumed, the containers are placed inside a similar Loop container, picked up by UPS or other package delivery service, and returned to the point of origin for re-use. Customers pay a modest service fee of the use of the Loop container
May 14th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
186 nations have signed an agreement that prevents shipping plastic waste to developing countries without their permission. The US, of course, is opposed to the initiative.
March 3rd, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Researchers at NREL have devised a way of using discarded single use plastic to make new products. It could keep much of the world's plastic trash out of landfills and the world's oceans.
November 5th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Researchers in Singapore say they have found a way to convert plastic waste into aerogels that can protect firefighters, reduce the energy needed for heating and cooling buildings, and maybe remove some of the excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
October 23rd, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Single-use water bottles are lame and are simply a lazy way to drink water. A new software startup is looking to make it easier to use refillable water bottles with a new smartphone app that displays all of the nearby locations where a water bottle can easily be refilled
September 10th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch organization, has created a boom and skirt system is says will remove 50% of the plastic trash currently floating in the Pacific Gyre by 2021. Will it be successful? We better hope so.
April 10th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Nestlé, one of the world's largest providers of single use plastic bottles, says it is launching a new campaign to reduce the amount of plastic it contributes to the environment every year. Greenpeace says the new policy amounts to nothing more than greenwashing.
January 17th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
New proposals from the EU and the UK are meant to address the scourge of plastic-based trash, most of which ends up in landfills and in the oceans. But are those proposals too little too late?
December 12th, 2017 | by Carolyn Fortuna
The Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Cape Town became a model for reducing single use plastics and water solutions
August 15th, 2017 | by Carolyn Fortuna
A plastics ban in Costa Rica that is scheduled to take effect in 2021 is a model for other countries around the world
