Prior to founding Galway Green Labs, Dr Una FitzGerald found she was contributing to the disposal of large volumes of laboratory plastics on a daily basis.
In Amsterdam, the Great Bubble Barrier is a simple solution to plastic pollution: creating an invisible barrier that helps collect the trash that ends up in the water.
The Sunshine Project, a gargantuan petrochemical complex proposed in Louisiana, will be one of the nation's largest greenhouse gas emitters when it becomes fully operational in 2029. It's one of 88 plastics plants under construction or planned in the U.S. that together would produce emissions equivalent to 38 coal plants.
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China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, the state planner said on Sunday, as it seeks to tackle one of the country's biggest environmental problems.
Being tailed by a whale across a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean put the task facing the all-female crew of a round-the-world plastic pollution mission in perspective.
How should a company that generates most of its profits by serving the world's enormous appetite for oil navigate a long-term future in which shifting political and economic tides threaten to make fossil fuels obsolete?
The Washington Legislature's 2019 session was momentous, but there's still work to be done, which is why the legislature is going into their 2020 session with four priorities: clean fuels, climate limits, plastic bags and orcas.
Ten years ago, Washington, D.C., was one of the first places in the nation to impose a fee on single-use shopping bags in an effort to curb pollution in the Anacostia River. Now, outright bans are catching on.
