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China stopped taking our plastic. Now America is drowning in it.
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAmericans produce 40 million tons of plastic waste each year. And it has to go somewhere. Carl...
The plastics industry says this technology could help banish pollution. It’s ‘an illusion,’ critics...
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA squat, light-colored building in Tigard, Oregon, was supposed to be part of a game-changing new...
Octopus keeps stuff out of Indonesia's crowded landfills
TechCrunch· 2 years agoAccording to the World Bank, Indonesia produces 4.8 million tons of plastic waste each year that is...
The Plastic Industry’s Latest Delay Tactic: “Plastic Offsets”
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPlastic is just about everywhere, piling up in streams, landfills, and even our bloodstreams and...
Unilever under fire for selling billions of polluting plastic sachets
PA Media: Money via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoUnilever has come under fire for selling billions of polluting plastic sachets as research by...
These siblings are cleaning up one of the world's most polluted rivers: 'It feels like this is just...
The Cool Down via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSungai Watch began small, but the family-run nonprofit based in Indonesia now has a team of more...
'Plastic floats on ocean like confetti' - explorer
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 week agoSally Earthrowl is a geography teacher at Ewell Castle School [Eleanor Church/Lark Rise Pictures] A geography teacher from Surrey said she was shocked to...
Indonesia's youth clean up trash from waterways, but more permanent solutions are still elusive
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAt a lake in the West Javan city of Bogor, children and teenagers paddle toward piles of floating...
UK wine drinkers help remove 10m plastic bottles from polluted sea
Press Association News via AOL· 1 year agoWine drinkers in the UK have helped remove the equivalent of 10 million plastic bottles from one of...
SC Johnson CEO Fisk Johnson leads a world-wide consumer products company. Here's why he's pushing...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo Finance· 10 months agoRacine-based SC Johnson Chairman and CEO Fisk Johnson is alarmed about contamination from plastics...