“If people want to see us as the rubbish dump of the world, you can dream on,” stated Yeo Bin Yee, Malaysia’s Minister of Energy, Science, Technology,
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Amazon claims they will switch to 100% recyclable/degradable shipping materials by mid-2020.
Remember 3 years ago when we started a petition for Amazon to switch to sustainable materials for shipping? We were told it just wouldn’t be
A Dash of Salt & Plastic
A 2018 study published in Environmental Science & Technology sampled 39 different salt brands sourced from 21 countries, and discovered microplastic (MP) contamination in all
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
No Plastic in Nature: A Frightening New Study
image courtesy of WWF, 2019 The 2019 World Wildlife Federation study “No Plastic in Nature: Assessing plastic ingestion from nature to people” has uncovered some
Zero Waste California 