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
The scientists behind a new paper, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, have discovered a new disease in seabirds, caused directly by exposure to plastics. The condition, called ‘plasticosis’, represents the first case of fibrosis induced by plastic consumption in wild animals, the researchers say. Disease caused by plastic in birds Birds with the disease have … 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,”
Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav told Lok Sabha that the government does not currently have any proposals under consideration to extend the scope of the ban on single-use plastics. Minister Yadav’s response was in response to a question from MP Umesh G Jadhav on details of the proposed expansion, if … Read more
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
Plastic collected from remote corners of the South Pacific Ocean, including the nesting grounds of New Zealand albatrosses, has confirmed the global threat of plastic pollution to seabirds. In the findings published in the journal Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, the researchers looked at plastic collected in far corners of the South Pacific Ocean, … Read more
More than seven out of 10 people support the issuance of mandatory standards in countries to end plastic pollution, showed a survey of 23,000 respondents in 34 countries, released this Wednesday the 23rd by the World Wide Fund for Nature or WWF and Australia-based environmental organization Plastic Free Foundation. Recycling plastic packaging The survey “is … 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
