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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Cape Town became a model for reducing single use plastics and water solutions.
A plastics ban in Costa Rica that is scheduled to take effect in 2021 is a model for other countries around the world.
