PADI and The Ocean Cleanup Join Forces to Tackle Oceans Plastic
Combining advanced environmental technologies with the world’s largest dive community to inform long-term solutions to…
Browsing: Plastic Pollution
Corona Canada Joins Global Initiative to Protect Paradise This Summer
In partnership with Parley for the Oceans, Corona pledges to clean 850,000 square meters of Canadian shoreline through…
Banning Harmful Single Use Plastics Petition
Plastic pollution is harming our rivers, lakes, oceans, and wildlife, and generating microplastics in the…
Introducing Reimagine – Plastic Free Shopping
Plastic is everywhere you see in grocery shops across the country. In the produce section…
A school that is making a difference one step at a time
Fernhurst Junior School in Portsmouth is raising awareness and understanding about the problems caused by…
Our Plastic Problem and Five Ways You Can Help
As many social feeds are recently showing, the growing amount of plastic waste is readily evident in our daily lives. From the infamous video of good samaritans pulling a plastic drinking straw from the nose of a sea turtle, to the 2016 report showing that by 2050 our oceans will contain more weight in plastic waste than fish, it’s becoming apparent, and frankly hard to ignore, that people’s obsession with disposable plastic products is a problem.
Plastic-eating Caterpillar Could Solve Global Plastic Pollution.
A Spanish biologist and amateur beekeeper, Federica Bertocchini, has discovered a plastic-eating caterpillar that could be the solution to global plastic pollution. The caterpillar’s ability to consume plastic was accidentally discovered during routine bee hive maintenance and it’s has since been studied by Bertocchini and her peers at the University of Cambridge. Their findings have been published in Current Biology in April 2017.
Plastic-eating Caterpillar Could Solve Global Plastic Pollution.
Amateur beekeeper accidentally discovers plastic-eating caterpillar that could solve global plastic pollution. A Spanish biologist…