Edible “Six-Pack Ring” is a great concept for marine wildlife
What if I told you that you could help wildlife by drinking beer? Saltwater Brewery, a Delray Beach (Florida) company, has ...
Tag: plastic
New packaging keeps food fresh way longer, without any plastic
The unlikely ally is silk.
First plastic-eating bacteria might one day help solve our trash problems
Japanese researchers have identified a bacteria that eats PET, a kind of plastic widely employed for bottles. This is the ...
Renewable plastic made from CO2 and waste agriculture
Making bottles to meet America’s demand for bottled water uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually, enough to ...
Hamburg becomes the first city to ban coffee pods
They may not look like much, but coffee pods are a big problem.
New, fully recyclable and biodegradable plastic could change the world
Colorado State University chemists have done the impossible: they've synthesized a fully recyclable, biodegradable polymer. Their work will not only ...
Plastic-eating worm might pave the way for ocean clean-up
When it comes to human waste products and pollutants, plastic claims the crown. There are very few things our planet ...
Self-healing bioplastic stitches itself back together when water is added
When your plastic device breaks, there's basically nothing else to do but shrug, try to glue it then go on ...
Plastic debris in 90% of seabirds’ guts
Researchers studying the plastic problem our ocean is facing predict that by 2050 nearly every single maritime bird species will ...
NASA research put together into a video showing how the ocean’s garbage patches formed over the last 35 years
Aaah, the ocean. The true final frontier. Full of wonderful and exciting things, such as strange fish, stranger crustaceans, beautiful ...
Adidas unveils new sneakers made from recycled ocean trash
Adidas new shoes are trash - literally. The German company has announced the creation of a new type of shoes ...
Mexican Researchers Turn Old Plastic Bottles Into Waterproof Paper
A team of Mexican researchers found a way to save 20 trees and 56,000 liters of water for every ton ...
Ocean sediments are a cemetery for plastic
A few days ago we were telling you about a study which quantified the amount of plastic in the Earth's ...
Full extent of plastic in world’s oceans quantified: over 5 trillions of pieces of plastic
We all know that our oceans are polluted, and one of the biggest problems is plastic pollution. But few people ...
New kind of plastic recycles itself when exposed to UV light
In 2012, the United States generated almost 14 million tons of plastics as containers and packaging, about 11 million tons ...
People in Beijing can pay for public transportation in recycling
People from Beijing can now use one of the city's 34 newly installed facilities which allows them to pay for ...
Trillions of pieces of plastic in the Arctic ice
The Arctic ocean likely holds trillions of pieces of plastic in ice; as global warming starts to tick in and ...
Bioplastic made from shrimp shell could help curb plastic pollution
The Wyss Institute researchers molded a series of chess pieces made of their chitosan bioplastic, demonstrating a new way towards ...
In Canada bees are making hives out of plastic
Bees are one of the most intelligent insects, and their resourcefulness is well recognized. Despite bee populations as a whole ...
New anti-fragile plastic becomes stronger every time it’s stressed
Say hello to drop-proof smartphones and whole new generation of plastic products that will be far more durable and strong ...
Great garbage patches in the Great Lakes resemble those in the Pacific
pollution-garbage-island In the 1980s a report described how a ginormous patch of plastic trash was guided by currents and concentrated right in ...
Just in case you didn’t know, there’s a garbage island twice as big as France in the Pacific Ocean
I was surprised to talk to a bunch of people today and find out they didn't know about this, so ...
Seattle’s Ban on Plastic and Styrofoam
The city of Seattle is one of the most active cities in the US and in the world ...
