Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:56:42 +0000
Tofino council amended its bylaw last month to include a ban on single-use plastic cutlery and local businesses have until August to comply.
Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:05:03 +0000
Can promoting sustainable design of products and materials so that they can be reused, remanufactured, or recycled and retained in the economy help to solve the global plastics problem? How is the plastics manufacturing industry responding to potential moratoriums?
Credit to Author: Jamie Leventhal| Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 13:46:49 GMT
About 10 million tons of plastic waste are dumped into our oceans every year—the equivalent of a garbage truck of plastic every minute. A new UN treaty is trying to fight that.
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Credit to Author: Madeleine Gregory| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:50:16 +0000
Invasive green crabs are a problem for conservationists, and now scientists in Canada will start receiving shipments of them to make biodegradable plastic cups and cutlery.
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Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 20:57:35 +0000
Fishing nets, buoy balls, plastic net bags, oyster trays, and long lines are just some of the marine debris choking wildlife and breaking down to micro plastics in the ocean. So what can B.C. do about it?
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Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:00:09 +0000
Fishing nets, buoy balls, plastic net bags, oyster trays, and long lines are just some of the marine debris choking wildlife and breaking down to micro plastics in the ocean. So what can B.C. do about it?
Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 03:30:33 +0000
Adidas is an industry leader in using recycled PET plastic in its products. As more companies follow its lead, the price of plastic waste may begin to rise, making it valuable enough to stop discarding it in landfills and oceans
Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:19:40 +0000
The federal government is moving to ban single-use items like plastic straws and bags by 2021, but Ocean Legacy president Chloe Dubois says much more needs to be done to save the oceans from the plastic crisis.
Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 01:00:47 +0000
Coca-Cola’s head of sustainability told the World Economic Forum this week her company has no intention of reducing the number of single use plastic bottles it churns out every year. Instead, it will increase recycling efforts worldwide. Is that a plan?
Credit to Author: J.J. Adams| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 17:26:51 +0000
Boyan Slat had a vision to scour plastic pollution from the world’s oceans, but is his mega-million dollar project the environmental version of the Fyre Fest?
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