The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large floating accumulation of debris in the Pacific Ocean, can be cleaned up within 10 years at a cost of $7.5 billion — or within five years with a more aggressive strategy costing $4 billion.
The Biden administration will reportedly phase out the use of plastic cutlery in all federal departments to combat “climate change.”
A directory telling do-gooders where to drop off their plastic bags for recycling was taken down because most bags were not being recycled.
A report released by Peking University this week found that China is at least five years behind its ostensible goal of reaching “peak carbon emissions” by 2030. In other words, it will be at least 2035 before China’s emissions stop increasing.
Britain’s supposedly “libertarian” prime minister is reportedly considering hitting consumers with a charge every time they use disposable paper coffee cups and wooden cutlery.
A Swedish court has ruled that a non-plastic, biodegradable, reusable bag will still be subject to a tax on plastic bags because it looks too much like real plastic.
The BBC has recorded heartbreaking footage of a once-beautiful coral reef choked with floating PPE equipment and discarded face masks.
Pope Francis thanked a delegation of Italian fishermen Saturday for their volunteer work in clearing the sea of plastic as part of their “seabed remediation” project.
Hey, don’t litter, be kind to animals, but other than that, there’s nothing wrong with eating some cheeseburgers in front of your 80-inch plasma TV while enjoying that 70 degree air conditioning and drinking a strawberry YooHoo out of a plastic bottle with a plastic straw.
During Wednesday’s CNN Climate Town Hall, 2020 presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) stated that we should ban plastic straws and have incentives to ban single-use plastic. Moderator Erin Burnett asked Harris if she would ban single-use plastic. Harris responded,
Malaysian Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin announced Tuesday the country would return 400 tons of garbage, most of it contaminated plastic, to its home countries, following adamant demands (and a threat of war) from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for Canada to take back its trash in Manila.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo called the $175.5 billion budget “the strongest progressive statement that we’ve made.”
The biggest environmental scare story of 2018 was plastic pollution in the oceans. (It was also, as we shall see – spoiler alert – the year’s biggest lie…)
Delta Airlines decided to ditch the plastic straws and stirrers on all flights starting next year, in keeping with recent trends in the travel, hospitality, and restaurant industries to ditch plastic for paper.
Seattle announced Monday that it is the first major city in the United States to bar restaurants from serving plastic utensils and straws to its customers.
Green recycling policy is killing the oceans with plastic pollution, says a shock report by a Finnish public health expert.
From the U.S. to the European Union to Australia, the West is waging war on plastic. It’s the latest moral panic. Soon, we’re told, there will be more plastic in the sea than there are fish.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pleading with state lawmakers to ban stores and restaurants from using plastic bags.
