plastic

Where do all these plastic really go after you discard them?

Plastic is everywhere. And we’re not just talking about the massive piles of trash or…

QC is the latest city to ban single-use plastic starting 2020

Quezon City, one of the first few cities to implement the payment-for-plastic-bag scheme, is moving…

LOOK: Storybook teaches children how plastic endangers marine creatures

By now, we all know (or at least, should know) how plastic—microplastics and huge chunks…

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5 bills that seek to ban single-use plastic in the country

Continuous efforts are being made by small and big enterprises to fix the country’s pollution…

A chilling discovery: The Arctic ice is not only melting, it’s also filled with microplastic

In May, the scientific community reported an alarming discovery that our plastic problem has infiltrated…

Canada to ban single-use plastic bags, straws, and water bottles by 2021

Since China has stopped taking in waste for recycling from the US, UK, and other’s…

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Cotton totes aren’t the be-all end-all solution to eliminating plastic waste

If you think switching from plastic bags to cotton tote bags is the way to…

Actor Pepe Herrera shows the plastic-sunken state of Freedom Island

As if 7,641 islands are not enough, Filipinos are starting to create a “new island”…

Essential oil-based edible films are better food preservers than plastic, experts prove

The development of plastic alternatives in food packaging doesn’t stop with beeswax, which emerged as the…

Shopping bags, rice sacks found inside dead whale in Mindanao

In June 2018, marine officials in Thailand went through a five-day effort to save a pilot…