Samples taken from five locations found concentrations of more than 12,000 microplastic particles per litre of sea ice Scientists have found a record amount of plastic trapped in Arctic sea ice, raising concern about the impact on marine life and human health. Up to 12,000 pieces of microplastic particles were found per litre of sea ice in […]

High levels of contamination in Mariana Trench show how pervasively planet has been contaminated The deepest point on Earth is heavily polluted with plastic, scientists have discovered, showing how pervasively the world has been contaminated. The researchers plumbed the depths of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, near Challenger Deep, the lowest place […]

With China refusing foreign waste under its new policy, countries are forced to handle their own plastic pollution As holiday shopping ramps up, so do the dizzying varieties of plastic packaging tossed in recycling bins. And while we wish a Christmas miracle would transform this old garbage into something new, the reality is the waste […]

Contact lens wearers will be able to recycle their lenses for free in a new UK-wide scheme launching this week. Wearers can dispose of their waste at public drop-off points, offered by Boots Opticians and other selected independent stores, or choose to have their old lenses collected. There are 3.7 million soft lens users in […]

HILO, Hawaii  – Big Island Grown says it hopes to open the first medical marijuana dispensary on Hawaii Island this week. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports the company aims to open three locations on the Big Island within the next month. The company is one of only two businesses licensed to sell medical marijuana products on the […]

Houston’s petrochemical industry is an economic engine that drives our region’s success. We employ tens of thousands of people in high paying jobs and our products and services are bettering lives around the world. But the global rise in mismanaged plastic waste threatens the many benefits that plastics provide to society, from improved living standards […]

Engineers at the Ocean Cleanup project are working on a fix to stop collected debris leaking back out from the 600m barrier A giant floating barrier launched off the coast of San Francisco as part of a $20m project to cleanup a swirling island of rubbish between California and Hawaii, is failing to collect plastic. The mastermind […]

A scheme to make it easy to obtain drinking water when on the move has been launched in the Isle of Man. Refill Isle of Man encourages shops, cafes, restaurants, tourist attractions and other publicly accessible premises to display an easy to recognise sticker, appear on an app and fill up people’s water bottles with cold […]

Deliver long-term value Finca Cortesin Hotel, Golf & Spa is at the forefront of European golf’s drive to become more eco-sustainable after revealing that it is using up to 30 per cent less water since becoming the first course in Spain to feature a new, environmentally-friendly, variety of Bermuda grass on all its greens. The deluxe […]

A long manufacturing boom has saddled China with millions of tonnes of waste, much of which is buried in sprawling landfill sites or dismantled by hand in polluting backstreet workshops. China plans to launch 100 new large-scale recycling “bases” by the end of next year, part of a campaign to make better use of its […]