Around the globe, there is a drive to reduce plastic waste. The movement has picked up in many cities with hotels, restaurants and shops cutting down on the use of single-use items like plastic straws and bags. Most of this waste are used in packaging and many, frankly are unnecessary. From packing avocados and oranges […]

World Wide Fund for Nature’s report says since the year 2000, the world has used more plastics than in all the years before. Bags, bottles, straws and plates – about half of the plastic used every day is used only once and then thrown away. This disposal after a single use is causing widespread damage […]

A major problem that we are being faced with daily is climate change. Climate change can be described as the current problems the Earth is facing like the overuse of fossil fuels and the drought that we have been in since 2011.Think about this, when your drinking water, what do you drink it out of? […]

A rubbery sea creature with an irritating habit of clinging to ships and invading beaches could help measure plastic pollution as it can filter tiny particles from the ocean and store them in its soft tissue. Israeli researchers have found that ascidians – round, palm-sized animals also known as sea squirts can thrive in dirty […]

Plastics have become public enemy number one. This year, environmental groups GreenSeas Trust and Greenpeace have joined forces with the IET to engineer creative solutions to two specific parts of the problem. While the consequences of plastic pollution are becoming obvious, so are the causes. Eighty per cent of marine litter originates from land, with […]

1 ton of plastics = 3 tons of fish, that’s the horizon of our oceans for 2025. Plastics, packaging and containers for unique uses made in plastic. It’s time to act! Luckily there are solutions. Take a look at the existing alternatives. Frightening, terrifying > 1 million seabirds die because of plastic pollution (Unesco). 13 […]

From packaging made out of organic waste to nano-engineering, the winners of the $2 million New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize provide real answers to the plastic problem There’s no love lost for plastic packaging. Whether it’s complicated recycling instructions on the products we buy, startling images of the impacts on wildlife, or simply the economic value […]

Space. The final frontier. A vast, unyielding stretch of stars, unknown planets, black holes, and other miracles of physics that have captivated us since the dawn of humans, yet we still know so little about it. In the Milky Way galaxy alone, there are an estimated 100-400 billion stars. How mind boggling is it then, that […]

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The European Parliament has voted for a complete ban on a range of single-use plastics across the union in a bid to stop pollution of the oceans. MEPs backed a ban on plastic cutlery and plates, cotton buds, straws, drink-stirrers and balloon sticks. The proposal also calls for a reduction in single-use plastic for food […]