Plastic pollution

This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine.On an overcast spring morning in 2012, Federica Bertocchini was tending to her honeybees close to where she lived in Santander, on Spain’s picturesque northern coast. One of the…
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The United Kingdom is set to ban many single-use plastic items, including cutlery, plates and polystyrene cups, in England as the country seeks to stop a torrent of plastic pollution.The Financial Times reported Wednesday the U.K.’s…
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Jason Momoa marked the unofficial start of fall this week by unveiling a striking new look. The “Aquaman” star shared a video on Instagram Tuesday in which he can be seen buzzing off his shoulder-length hair. “I’ve never even felt the wind…
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A ban on single-use plastics could lower the health risks to humans of toxic chemicals, according to one expert, as Canada moves towards eliminating plastic waste. Removing plastic from food packaging is a “big step forward” in…
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As the world buckles under the weight of billions of tonnes of plastic pollution, some unlikely solutions are emerging — and in the form of mushrooms, lentils and wheat.These are some of the natural substances whose byproducts can also be…
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A new study has found microplastics in human blood for the first time.In a study published in the journal Environment International and first reported by The Guardian, scientists analyzed blood samples from 22 healthy volunteers. A…
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Plastics have always been global—even before science began tracking the peregrinations of microplastics across meridians, into rain, through the human pla​​centa. At the industry’s outset, Civil War–era rubber goods were fashioned with…
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The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, otherwise known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," is considered the world's largest accumulation of ocean plastic. It's so massive, in fact, that researchers found it has been colonized by species —…
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Plastics are everywhere. From the stomachs of deep-sea fish to human feces, Arctic snow to gusts of wind in the remote wilderness, the oil and gas byproduct has, barely a century after it was first synthesized in a laboratory, become a…
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A senior ExxonMobil lobbyist unknowingly told a Greenpeace activist that plastic disposal and recycling will be a “big business” for petrochemical firms.Keith McCoy, who was earlier recorded saying energy companies fought against “some of…
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