Plastic waste is one of three main enemies nowadays, along with climate change and coronavirus. Even though we are still focusing on combatting the coronavirus...
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Irish Teen Created a Method to Remove Microplastics From The Ocean
An Irish student has won a global science award for his project which aims to remove microplastics from the world’s oceans. Fionn Ferreira from Ballydehob...
Henderson Island, The Plastic Beach We Never Wanted
What is the clearest sign of civilization nowadays? Well, some might say fire, some might say sound, but for today, the clearest sign of civilization...
Is It Finally Raining Plastic? Check What Scientists Found Out
We love the sound of raindrops falling on our land. We also love the smell of petrichor, the pleasant smell produced when rain fall on...
Plastic Wrap, Convenient for Humans Yet A Deadly Product For Our Planet
Who doesn’t use plastic wrap, really? Especially the ones who need them like tattoo parlors, big restaurants, or bakery shops? This product is always going...
Waste Trade: How Big Countries Used To Deal With Their Problem
Export and import are terms used to explain international trade between countries for commodities or services. Export is an activity when a country is sending...
No Plastic Is Too Hard To Recycle In The Future, Thanks To Them
Plastic is a major problem nowadays, and most of us already know that it litters our ocean and puts burden to marine ecosystem big time....
Cotton Buds Are Just as Problematic as Straws, So Here Are the Alternatives
For us who don’t generally have problems with ear wax, we can live without cotton buds. But for the ones who do have problems with...
Forget Everything, This Water Bottle Is Made Of Paper
The fact that so many people nowadays are consuming plastic-bottled water is not good news for the earth. Plastic water bottle is one of the...
Cholera Can Go All The Way From India to US Because of Pathogens Hitchhiking on Plastics
Humans hitchhiking? Tolerable. Animals hitchhiking? Cute, funny, or amazing. Dangerous pathogens hitchhiking? Nightmare. That’s right, now even pathogens are able to hitchhike all thanks to...