In this day and age, who isn’t familiar with microplastics? The nearly indestructible bits of plastic that break off from common plastic items? As...
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4 Ways to Stop Plastics From Trashing Earth Despite Using Them
In most pollution situations, plastics lie at the heart of them. These materials destroy natural environments but that’s not the only thing. They break down...
Trash Hermits: More Hermit Crabs Favor Plastic Waste as Their Homes
Think of hermit crabs. Some images that we have are those little critters coming out of their shells to move to larger ones. But nowadays,...
Study Reveals That in the Future, There Might Be Significant Waves of Invasive Species
Alien species that are destructive and wiping out the native ones have been a persistent problem in many parts of the world. Are we to...
Scientists Have Made Sponges to Soak Microplastics – Will It Make a Dent?
Sponges have been our go-to for countless tasks throughout our lives and not just for cleaning stuff. It’s all thanks to their ability to capture...
Indonesia’s Plastic Pollution: The Problem and the Efforts so Far
Indonesia, a country that’s so rich in beautiful nature, culture, and history, is now unfortunately one of the largest contributors to marine plastic pollution in...
Smoking Cigarette In Spain? Better Cleanup Your Buds
There is one small kind of single use plastic which everyone tends to overlook. This single use plastic is literally everywhere and littering the environment...
Capturing Microfibers and Upcycling Them may be Possible in the Near Future, New Research Says
We all know it: microfiber is another long-term problem like microplastic. And so far, we’ve only tried to prevent and reduce it even though microfiber...
Here’s How to Clean Your Dirty Laundry While Reducing Microfiber Pollution
We know that microfiber and microplastic are a problem, and it’s upsetting when we see tiny bits of colors in our laundry water or our...
Recycling Rigid Plastic Have Happened, But What About the Multilayer Kind?
Recycling plastics have happened to those rigid in forms, such as pallets and furniture, or the ones with only one polymer material (monolayer). The flexible,...