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Micro-plastics not just bad for the oceans, they're now in the air

A new study from Toulouse University shows that there are atmospheric micro-plastics. A five-month study carried out in the French Pyrenees showed that micro-plastics can travel a distance of up to 95 kilometres.

Earth News

Can one woman change Belgium’s love affair with bottled water?

Why is Belgium so hooked on bottled water - while hosting the EU headquarters, a world leader in the fight against plastic waste?

Earth News

Seaweed can save the planet from plastic waste

Researchers have devised a possible solution for durable plastic waste, inspired by the ocean.

Italy

Sperm whale washes up dead with 22 kgs of plastic in its stomach

The whale’s stomach had a mixture of garbage bags, plastic bags, fishing nets, plates, tubes, and a bag of a washing machine liquid.

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Earth News

When plastic is welcome

Watch this Czech artist creating masterpieces out of upcycled plastic bottles.

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Artist creates lifelike sculptures from plastic bottles

Artist Veronika Richterova has a shed full of bags of plastic bottles at her home in the small Czech town of Bustehrad — the raw material for her lifelike sculptures.

World News

Spring clean: Litter pickers set to help clear-up Europe’s beaches

Environmentally-conscious volunteers are donning gloves and picking up litter at more than 640 sites across the continent.

USA

8 simple ways to cut back on plastic

The number-one way to reduce plastic waste is to cut back on the amount we use in our daily lives.

Philippines

Whale dies from “gastric shock” after ingesting 40kgs of plastic

16 rice sacks, 4 banana bags and multiple shopping bags were found during an autopsy of a young male Cuvier’s beaked whale that washed up on a beach in the Philippines

Destinations

Saving the Seychelles, one piece of plastic at a time

From bags to bottles, around 13 million tonnes of plastic flows into our oceans every year

Australia

Balloons deadliest risk to seabirds ingesting ocean plastic

Seabirds are much more likely to die from ingesting balloon fragments than hard plastics, researchers have found.

Earth News

Robinson Crusoe island sets example for the world in conservation

Robinson Crusoe island sets example for the world in conservation

28 February 2019

Earth News

Ukrainian artist turns plastic into jewellery

'Trash is a treasure', believes Ukrainian artist Mariya Sorokina.

26 February 2019

France

'Trash cows': Farm animals swallow metal and plastic waste

Some 60,000 cows in France develop tumours and infections every year because of waste they ingest.

23 February 2019

Earth News

Restricting the use of microplastics and why is it essential for you

A new restriction proposal could reduce the amount of microplastics released to the environment in the EU by about 400,000 tonnes over 20 years.

5 February 2019

Earth News

Sustainable underwear against fast fashion

These four ethical lingerie brands are on a mission to prove that sustainability is sexy.

31 January 2019

Earth News

Can plastic bottles be the "new Egyptian cotton"?

An Egyptian factory uses recycled plastic bottles to produce polyester fibre as a cheaper alternative to cotton, after the country's cotton crop witnessed many hiccups.

25 January 2019

Earth News

This street art is raising attention to endangered animals

Discarded plastic finds a second life in Bordello II's endangered animal street art

23 January 2019

Italy

Italian ban on plastic cotton buds comes into effect

At the stroke of midnight on Tuesday, Italy said goodbye to cotton buds, as the New Year ushered in the country's latest push to eliminate single-use plastic products.

Focus

Solving the planet's plastic problem by closing the recycling loop

The 2018 Innovation Radar Prize has been won by an Italian startup project that seeks to recycle a much greater proportion of plastic waste

28 December 2018