Humanity's Plastic Addiction

Plastic waste never really breaks down. It just splits into tinier and tinier pieces until it becomes trillions of microscopic bits ...

Plastics addiction: humanity's Existential Crisis

This may lead to Plasticimea (Death by plastic use) which is life threatening for all of us. Today humanity is virtually Plastidicted (i.e. Plastic Addicted).

The Existential Crisis Created by Humanity's Addiction to Plastic

The materials used to make every day plastic items are harmful to human health yet we still make plastic because we need it.

The World's Addiction to Plastic Must Be Addressed

“As it stands, humanity now produces more than 200 million tonnes of plastic waste annually. This is equivalent to around 523 trillion plastic ...

Humanity's Plastic Addiction - Causes and Solutions - Reddit

Our plastic addiction has been pushed on us by the plastics-focused industries (fossil fuel, plastics, packaging, beverage) - by far the worst pollution ...

Our Plastic Addiction: 5 Ways To Kick the Habit - Green That Life

Humanity's plastic addiction threatens to blanket the planet in plastic ... plastic pollution, humanity's plastic addiction continues unabated.

Q&A: Our addiction to plastic has to end, No More Plastic founder says

Rosalie Mann: Our society is completely addicted to this material. It's crazy. But the truth is, the economic system is the one truly addicted ...

Everyone knows plastic pollution is bad. Why is it so hard for ... - Vox

One study published earlier this year found microplastic pollution in every one of the two dozen human testicles and nearly 50 dog testicles ...

The missing science: Could our addiction to plastic be poisoning us?

When scientists took a proper look at these substances, they found them to be incredibly harmful to people and the planet. Now this attention is ...

The plastic pollution crisis - Story | IUCN

... plastic pollution has since become one of the most serious threats humanity faces. By 2015, 60% of all plastic ever produced had become plastic waste, and ...

Our plastic addiction is killing the oceans | by The Beam - Medium

In fact, all of the plastic ever produced by humanity still exists in one form or another. After use, there are three potential fates bestowed ...

The Earth's climate is paying for our addiction to plastic | Carroll Muffett

In recent years, stark images of beaches, waterways and wildlife filled with plastic have spurred demands for action to address plastic ...

New English edition of Plastic Atlas spotlights humanity's toxic ...

New English edition of Plastic Atlas spotlights humanity's toxic addiction ... Published jointly by Break Free From Plastic, the Heinrich Böll ...

Plastic Pollution: It's in Everything, and Now It's Everywhere

Plastic is everywhere and in everything; from the bottles in our fridges to the shoes on our feet, it seems to dominate all areas of our lives.

Plastic pollution facts and information - National Geographic

Plastic pollution is most visible in developing Asian and African nations, where garbage collection systems are often inefficient or nonexistent ...

Humanitys Plastic Addiction: Saving Our Ocean - Mrs. Green's World

Humanity's Plastic Addiction: Saving Our Ocean ... Plastic is having a devastating effect on our oceans, our wildlife and ultimately on us as a ...

Ten statistics on global plastic addiction and its consequences

Besides nets and plastic bags, the ocean teems with microplastics – tiny fragments less than 5mm in diameter resulting from the degradation of ...

Ocean plastic could spread human disease | Dialogue Earth

Images of paradise beaches buried under bottles and ocean animals swimming past carrier bags are the all-too-familiar evidence of how humanity's ...

Comic antihero tackles humanity's absurd and tragic plastic addiction

Belgian cartoonist Pieter De Poortere magnifies solutions to the plastic pollution crisis ... Earlier this year, Belgian cartoonist Pieter De ...

7 ways you can counter the scourge of single-use plastics - UNEP

Humanity's addiction to disposable plastic is choking the world's rivers and seas, threatening wildlife and contaminating the food chain.