Despite the widespread belief that recycling plastic can help alleviate the issue of pollution, only nine percent of plastic is actually recycled worldwide, with the rest ending up in landfills, including oceans, causing detrimental marine pollution. This global issue is exacerbated by the United States, which generates the most plastic pollution and recycles a mere … Read more
Plastic consumption in G20 countries could nearly double by mid-century unless a treaty is made for new global policies to reduce its use, says research published Monday by the Back to Blue initiative. The report, led by experts from Economist Impact and the Nippon Foundation, reveals that without any policy intervention to boost recycling or … Read more
The advancement of a report to be published later this year shows that unless the measures against plastic are resounding, this type of contamination will reach worrying levels in the next three decades. According to a new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), by 2060 the amount of plastic waste generated … Read more
Up to 75% of everything brown bears eat comes from garbage, which means that their frequency of scavenging is much higher than eating wild plant matter, crops, and even hunted sheep,”
In the municipality of Katwijk, the Netherlands, an innovative system called the Bubble Barrier has been implemented, in which a “curtain” of air bubbles is placed along a channel to remove plastic debris from the water. Although the project launched in 2019 is only a small-scale test at the moment, the nonprofit group behind the … Read more
Most plastic simply cannot be recycled, a new report from Greenpeace USA concludes. Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, published today, finds that US households generated an estimated 51 million tons of plastic waste in 2021, of which only 2.4 million tons were recycled. The report also finds that no type of plastic packaging in the … Read more
The plastic problem has an origin and this is focused on a handful of those responsible. According to the Plastic Waste Makers Index, 20 companies are the ones that produce more than half of the single-use plastic items discarded globally. The study names companies that are at the forefront of the plastic supply chain and … Read more
(OECD), by 2060 the amount of plastic waste generated worldwide will triple; about half will go to landfill and less than a fifth will be recycled. In Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060, a paper to be released in full by the end of the year, it is argued that unless radical steps are … Read more
Ground Report | New Delhi: Plastic in oceans; In mid-2015, the world was moved by a video recorded in Costa Rica that showed the suffering of a sea turtle as a biologist used metal pliers to extract a plastic straw from its nose. The images went viral thanks to the firm disposition of environmental activists, … Read more
आज के वैज्ञानिक युग में न केवल मानव विकास की रफ्तार बढ़ी है बल्कि विज्ञान ने इंसान के जीवन को और भी अधिक सरल और सुविधाजनक बना दिया है। हालांकि नई तकनीक के प्रयोग ने कई बिमारियों, चुनौतियों और समस्याओं को भी जन्म दिया है। विज्ञान और आधुनिक तकनीकों के प्रयोग ने प्राकृतिक वातावरण को … Read more
