The Roatan Marine Park is our local non-profit organization that runs numerous conservation programs including an anti plastic campaign and environmental education programs You can make a donationHERE This guy was found buried on the shore. Thanks Coca-Cola for contributing so much plastic to our o...
In today’s world, the environmental challenges posed by plastic waste have become increasingly pressing. Recycling is a vital and lucrative industry dedicated to addressing the grave issue of plastic pollution. Recycling plants aim to solve the crisis by converting plastic waste into valuable resources...
Introducing recycling or cleaning up empty bottles may solve the plastic pollution problem. But the truth is that plastic waste generation can range in size from large to microscopic. So let’s discover what causes plastic pollution, the effects of plastic production, and how we can stop global ...
Such heterogeneous distributions could affect plant responses to plastic pollution. Yet, this has remained untested. We conducted a multispecies experiment including 29 herbaceous plant species and three different microplastic treatments (a control without microplastics, a homogeneous and a heterogeneous ...
Plastic pollution—“a scourge on a planetary scale,” as French president Emmanuel Macron has put it—most affects those least able to deal with its consequences. Noting that the plastic industry generates upward of $700 billion a year in revenues, the UN Environment Programme also concluded ...
It’s obvious that plastic pollution is a big problem nowadays. Luckily, researchers have found a chemical from a kind of worm candegradeone of the most common forms of plastic. The finding could open up new ways to deal with the problem. ...
plastic pollution has been overemphasized by the media, governments and ultimately the public asthemajor threat to marine environments at the expense of climate change and biodiversity loss… a convenient truth, especially as some mechanisms to reduce plastic waste play into corporate greenwashing in a...
It can be seen in Table 1 that on the national level, phased goals for plastic pollution control are formulated, which require that the usage of nondegradable disposable plastic straws in the catering industry throughout the country be prohibited by the end of 2020 in China. Thereafter, govern...
How much difference can we as individuals make when there’s already amassive patchof plastic pollution in the ocean twice the size of the state ofTexas? The truth is, most of us can’t directly do much about the impact plastic in the sea has on the marine environment. What we can do...
to reduce the amount of non-biodegradable waste in landfills and oceans, and to mitigate the harm to wildlife caused by plastic pollution. The specifics of these bans vary from place to place; some impose fees on plastic bags, while others ban them outright. The effectiveness of these bans ...