California has passed a new amendment that adds to its original plastic bag ban. The state banned single-use plastic bags beginning in 2016 but allowed thicker “reusable” plastic bags to be sold for a 10 cent fee. Officials there thought that the original legislative design, with a few caveats, would … [continued]
Making the Earth a dumping ground for forever chemicals and plastics is a dumb idea.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced hundreds of millions of people around the world to shelter at home, only leaving the cocoon for essential items like groceries. One notable exception to the isolation orders is take-out food. In order to keep local restaurants afloat through the current pandemic, many people order take-out food to go or via one of the many delivery services out there like Uber Eats, Postmates, or GrubHub.
Banana leaves that can replace plastic wrap and other plastic wraps — one more attempt to save the planet from ourselves.
Plastic trash used to be a simple problem. Bundle it up, put it on a freighter, and ship it off to China. That worked really well until China stopped allowing plastic waste into the country. All of sudden, the countries producing all that trash had no idea what to do with it.
Teams and individuals will compete for one year to propose their innovative solutions to the world’s plastic crisis.
The company’s refill stations are gaining traction across all 50 US states.
