Researchers find that much supposedly recycled plastic from Europe is in fact exported to Southeast Asia and dumped
Capitalism fouls things up
Archive | Plastic
Pollution concentrates
Highest level of plastics found on seafloor
Ocean currents create ‘microplastic hotspots’ with up to 1.9 million pieces per square metre
Fouling the Earth
It’s time to break up capitalism’s love affair with plastic
A valuable invention is massively misused in the service of profit, producing unprecedented waste and pollution. How can we stop the plastic plague?
Our polluted oceans
Plastic plague intensifies on remote southern islands
Plastic pollution is now reaching some of the most remote areas of Earth. Scientists find 100 times more plastic debris on isolated South Atlantic islands than 30 years ago.