Humanity's Plastic Addiction

Plastic-busting fungi may help tackle pollution, climate change

A new United Nations-backed report reveals that fungi could help ween the world off its plastic addiction, by degrading polyurethane in just a matter of weeks.

Craig Leeson - Australian of the Year Awards

He co-founded A Plastic Oceans Foundation and advises to Plastic Oceans International – a charity dedicated to ending humanity's single-use plastic addiction ...

“Humanity's plastic footprint is probably more dangerous than its ...

Microplastics are still being studied, but the impacts on marine wildlife that consumes them creates a whole host of long-term biological issues ...

The Plastic Crisis, Human Dignity, and Care for our Common Home

The time has come to recognize that plastics is not an isolated problem. ... Over 90% of plastic waste is not recycled and ends up in landfills or ...

10 Scientific Solutions to Plastic Pollution - Earth.Org

As most of the plastics that we use don't break down and dissolve easily, it is slowly filling up our oceans, which will take centuries to ...

Is this drinking device humanity's most harmful creation?

The plastic monster is made up of myriad parts: packaging, overproduction, waste in the oceans and on the shores and the simple addiction to the ready ...

The shocking extent of Earth's plastic crisis: 220 MILLION tonnes of ...

The report comes as the world reaches Plastic Overshoot Day - the day humanity's plastic waste surpasses our capability to handle it. Worryingly ...

Climate change, meet your apocalyptic twin: oceans poisoned by ...

At that point, plastic bottles, spoons and wrappers seem to disappear forever. But there are 3.5 billion people on Earth who know better. No ...

Sci-Fi Eye: Could recycling nanobots spell the end for humanity?

Recently, though, a number of projects have started to address the effects of our addiction to plastic. A recent report in The Engineer looked ...

The World's Addiction to Plastic in Five Charts - BloombergNEF

The World's Addiction to Plastic in Five Charts · 1. Seemingly unstoppable growth through to 2050 · 2. Hunger for plastic will fuel oil demand for ...

All the materials humans use outweigh life on Earth: 4 graphs that ...

The extent of humanity's influence on the planet has become increasingly clear in recent years. From the alarming accumulation of plastic waste in our ...

Boyan Slat | Founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup

We make use of functional, analytical, and tracking cookies. ... May 25, 2023 Plastic pollution on a beach in Honduras. Humanity Is Addicted to Plastic, but We ...

The known unknowns of plastic pollution - The Economist

Often, as with disposable coffee cups, drinks bottles, sweet wrappers and other packets that account for much of the plastic produced in Europe ...

How Plastics Benefit Wildlife and the Environment

Several proposals designed to end America's so-called addiction to plastics are currently pending in Congress. They include the Break-Free from ...

Plastic People - Rio Theatre

The ground-breaking feature documentary PLASTIC PEOPLE investigates our addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics on human health.

Spain declares environmental emergency over plastic pellets ...

... humanity,” Spain's minister for the environment, Teresa Ribera, said ... Q&A: Our addiction to plastic has to end, No More Plastic founder says.

BBC Learning English - Curbing our plastic addiction

Yes, it's our addiction to plastic that is of concern because this material doesn't decay very quickly, so once we've used it, it hangs around ...

Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our ...

A superb book in a naff cover, combining mind blowing facts with ideas for overcoming the addiction we, as individuals and as a society, seem to ...

Plastic pollution - a ticking time bomb, says Fijian Prime Minister

Once a great invention for the service of humanity, plastics have become an enemy of civilisation. ... “We must work as one […] to break our ...

Human-Made Stuff Outweighs Biomass | PlasticOceans.org

Tod Hardin, COO of Plastic Oceans, writes about a study that reveals that human-made stuff likely outweighs all living material on Earth.