How Our Plastics Addiction Is Choking The Planet

The Silent Crisis of Microplastics: How Our Environment is Choking on

Microplastics are created when larger plastic items degrade due to environmental exposure, such as sunlight, wind, and ocean waves. They break ...

Plastic Pollution Affects Sea Life Throughout the Ocean

Our ocean and the array of species that call it home are succumbing to the poison of plastic. Examples abound, from the gray whale that died ...

How to end ocean plastic pollution - EIA

When plastic enters the marine environment, it is largely buoyant and drifts with prevailing currents and winds, accumulating in spiralling ocean currents.

Planet or Plastic? - National Geographic

The latest stories from our Planet or Plastic? series—a multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis.

10 Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution - NRDC

While soaking up the relaxing cadence of crashing waves on the beach, no one wants to think about how the ocean has basically become garbage ...

Once-pristine Arctic choking on our plastic addiction - Coastal Care

This new study suggests there are 15 to 51 trillion micro plastic particles (those less than 200 millimeters in size) in the world's oceans, ...

Choked: Unpacking our plastic - Our Broken Planet - Apple Podcasts

Choked: Unpacking our plastic addiction ... We all know that plastic isn't great for our planet. But how much do scientists really know about how it's affecting ...

Our plastic pollution crisis is too big for recycling to fix | Annie Leonard

Every minute, every single day, the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters our oceans. In the name of profit and convenience, corporations ...

Plastic: Our Toxic Addiction | GBH - WGBH

... choking on the stuff, now it has ... What can be done to break our toxic addiction to plastic, and to terminate its lethal global legacy?

Stopping The Wave Of Plastic Waste | The Momentum

Let's focus on plastic waste in our water, specifically in the oceans, which cover over 70% of the Earth's surface. Only a fraction of disposed of plastic is ...

Shocking Photos of the Plastic Waste Choking Our Planet - Newsweek

Around the world, one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute. Up to five trillion disposable plastic bags are used ...

Plastics tsunami: Can a landmark treaty stop waste from choking the ...

Of the waste, nearly 80% has been buried in landfill or found its way into the environment, and a scant 8% recycled. By 2060, plastic waste ...

A running list of action on plastic pollution - National Geographic

Two hundred and fifty organizations responsible for 20 percent of the plastic packaging produced around the world have committed to reducing ...

Stop plastic pollution at the source. You've got it in you. - Donate

From the deepest oceans to the highest mountain tops, plastics are choking the life we rely on. It's in our landscapes. It's in our food. It's in us.

The World's Addiction to Plastic Must Be Addressed

This makes plastic pollution one of the world's most egregious environmental crises today—not to mention an issue with a profound global ...

Protect Our Planet from Plastic Pollution: 5 Things to Know

Plastics are polluting our planet and choking our ocean, harming human health, and damaging ecosystems vital to our livelihoods.

What's choking our oceans? This World Environment Day know all ...

Plastic pollution is the widespread disposal of plastic garbage in landfills and oceans. In addition to being a significant factor in climate ...

United Nations Foundation on LinkedIn: Our planet is choking on ...

In fact, cigarettes have their own plastic problem, with cigarette butts being made of toxic plastics. Our addiction to convenience and single-use plastic ...

How you can help protect the environment from plastic pollution

Personal care products are a major source of microplastics, which get washed into the oceans straight from our bathrooms. Look for plastic-free ...

How plastic pollution is choking the planet, and what's being done ...

As the world buckles under the weight of billions of tonnes of plastic pollution, some unlikely solutions are emerging — and in the form of ...