The Ocean Cleanup project, a nonprofit that’s attempting to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using specialized floating equipment, is planning to sell the plastic it’s collected in theContinue Reading
The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch non-profit organization developing advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic, was recently awarded $1M USD by the Benioff Ocean Initiative to stop plasticContinue Reading
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has announced the introduction of CanCollar, a paperboard packaging solution, for multipack cans that is sustainable, recyclable, and set to keep more than 18 “tonnes” (aboutContinue Reading
Vacuuming plastic from the ocean sounds oddly impossible, but Meet FRED, a solar-powered catamaran that is built by Clear Blue Sea, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to cleansing theContinue Reading
Bags made of supposedly biodegradable plastics remain intact and useable three years after being dropped in the sea or buried underground, researchers have found. The study, carried out by theContinue Reading
The root cause of waste is not plastic, per se, it’s using things once, and that’s really what Loop tries to change as much as possible. Loop, a new zero-wasteContinue Reading
A massive amount of plastic trash ends up in our oceans every year. The ocean currents have formed five gigantic, slow moving whirlpools where the plastic collects, nicknamed Vortex. RecentContinue Reading
