Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, explains the nonprofit's mission to clean up floating plastic in the Great ... said Monday in a post on X that it has now collected over 10 ...

Not all plastic can be recycled Recyclers tuck items away into their bins with the best of intentions, but not every disposable product can be recycled.

She points out that at the current rate, global plastic production is forecast to increase threefold by 2060, and that the reality is that little of it is recycled ... We'd have to plant ...

Ottawa, April 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global plastic food packaging market size was valued at USD ... Poor packaging is responsible for more than 25% of worldwide food waste, according ...

To stop plastic reaching the ocean ... "This is a very serious problem," says Grønneberg, adding what can't be recycled often ends up in local landfills and rivers. But some say clean-up efforts ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, almost 94 tons of municipal solid waste were recycled and composed in 2018 – about 32%. But there's also the looming issue of contamination, rendering ...

From ghost fishing gear drifting in the ocean to containers that end up in landfills, plastic now turns up nearly ... or that contain greater recycled content, if there are systems for collecting ...

At a growth rate of 4 per cent per year, emissions from primary plastic production would increase more than threefold to 6.78 GtCO2e, accounting for 25-31 per cent of the remaining global carbon ...

No one wants to see our parks and trails littered with packaging that can and should be recycled ... plastic bottles and cans back to be remade, as intended. Currently, residents have 32 ...

Let's keep the Wisconsin Earth Day tradition alive by participating in one of these events so we can keep this big blue marble around ... against single-use plastic bags. In just two weeks ...

Sharon, a rescuer, explained that the plastic bottle had left the fox 'distressed' and 'terrified' and it was currently 'freaking out'. She said: 'If it gets away the worst thing [is] knowing you ...