NZ Bans Single Use Plastic by 2025, Could New Plastic-Eating Bacteria Help Combat Plastic Pollution? Bacteria In Cow Stomachs Can Break Down Plastic, Climate Champ Fionn Ferreira: With Fionn Ferreira.
Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source(来源)of plastic pollution, but they’ve recently come under fire because most people don’t need them to drink with and, because of their small size and weight, th...
In June of 2022, California signed into law The Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (also called SB 54). A sweeping environmental bill, its most talked-about provisions are around single-use plastics; according to the law, all single-use packaging plastics sold ...
Phthalate pollution driven by the industrial plastics market: a case study of the plastic market in Yuyao City, China. In attempts to evaluate the environmental risk produced by plastic markets, the levels and congener profiles of phthalate esters (PAEs) in soil, vegetable,... Yihua,Jianqiang,Su...
In the circular model, plastic would never become waste or pollution. We could eliminate its unnecessary use, such as excessive food packaging, and ensure that all plastic products can be upcycled. A coffee cup can be turned into a...
Uwimana, AbiasCollege of Science and Technology, University of Rwanda, Kigali, RwandaBirame, Christian SekomoNational Industrial Research and Development Agency, Kigali, RwandaSpringer Berlin HeidelbergEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research
sit in the toilet and break down for at least 20 minutes before flushing. The poop bags, on the other hand, will get soft in the toilet but will not actually fall apart until after they are flushed. What would happen if the bag got caught on something in the pipes in the mean time...
This study concludes that (micro-)plastic pollution in the Arabian Peninsula should be given a careful consideration during COVID-19 pandemic. Saudi Arabia and Qatar appears to be the major potential contributors and the high usage of face masks is expected to increase the (micro-)plastic load ...
Urban centres generating plastic pollution are also located in other types of estuaries, such as tidally-dominant estuaries with short creeks. Here we examine the Waitematā Estuary, New Zealand, which is a short (15 km in length), tidally-dominant (spring tidal current amplitude of 1 ms−1...
Sir David also made the case against plastic in the ocean in the recent series Blue Planet II. Julian Kirby, campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said: “Blue Planet’s reach now extends to the Royal households which shows how much moment...