Tag: Plastic Pollution

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or Pacific trash vortex, is a collection of marine debris spanning from the North American ...

WWF is calling on governments to support global bans and phase-outs of the "most high-risk and unnecessary" single-use plastic products ...

On May 10, scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and the Swiss Federal ...

In the North Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, there is a shape-shifting, floating mass that’s three times the size ...

Microorganisms exist in large quantities all over the planet – both on land and in the sea. They impact nearly ...

As climate change is accelerating, so is desertification. And deserts are becoming ever more a challenge that needs to be ...

Earlier this week, Alister Jack, the Secretary of State for Scotland, made it clear that he intends to deny a ...

A new study published in the open-access scientific journal, Plos One, has found a “plastic smog” plaguing our oceans. It’s ...

The problem with plastic lies in its very name. Deriving from Greek, etymologically it means “to mould” (plasma), as in ...

Imagine this. You’re sorting through some old clothes and find a polyester-blend t-shirt from Zara or H&M that you realise ...

Plastic waste is increasingly engulfing everything on the planet from ecosystems to people but we don’t have adequate knowledge of ...

In March, at the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, UN member states adopted the historic resolution to ...