Once you’ve used up your single-use plastic items and disposed of them properly, by reusing them/refilling them, or as a last resort, recycling them (either
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California bans hotels from dispensing single-use ‘personal care’ bottles!
SUCCESS!!!!! AB-1162 was signed into law this week! That means California hotels will no longer be allowed to offer small single-use plastic bottles in
About 46% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of fishing nets
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a mass of plastic pollution accumulating in the Pacific between California and Hawaii, is now twice the size
Will history repeat itself (and be a good thing?)
In the 1920s, tetraethyl lead was added to gasoline to prevent engine knock and to increase compression ratios. Combustion engines were becoming commonplace, and in
On average, humans ingest 5 grams of plastic per week that’s about the weight of a credit card!)
According to a 2019 study for the World Wildlife Federation, around the globe, humans ingest approximately 5 grams of plastic every week (the equivalent of
“It is raining plastic:” New Study Finds Plastic in Raindrops
In a 2019 USGS study, a myriad of colorful microplastic particles were discovered in raindrops collected in Boulder, Colorado. The report states, “More plastic fibers
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