Tag: plastic
Nanonplstics not just in seafood, new study finds small plastic particles...
The study confirmed that humans and animals are consuming nanoplastics not just through seafood and water sources, but now through agriculture.
How Big Oil hijacked EU-funded journalism training on plastic pollution
At an event ostensibly about plastic waste, none of the speakers were heard mentioning the need to reduce plastic production—the core issue driving the crisis.
Trade must be part of solution to plastic pollution, Global Trade...
The report confirmed that while trade in plastic surpassed $1.1 trillion 75 percent of the plastic produced becomes waste and ends up in the world’s oceans and ecosystems.
New lawsuit claims Ziploc brand products misleading, increases risk of exposure...
Made from polyethylene and polypropylene, research shows that these materials release microplastics when microwaved and frozen "making them fundamentally unfit for microwave and freezer use."
Plastic free: Bali tightens plastic ban to achieve greener, more sustainable...
With nearly 6.5 million tourists flocking to Bali's beaches and rice fields, according to the island’s Central Statistics Office, the hope is to make Bali waste-free by 2027
Coca-Cola’s plastic waste polluting oceans projected to reach 1.3 billion pounds...
Coca-Cola’s World With Waste projects that the company’s plastic use will be more than 9.1 billion pounds annually by 2030 if its practices do not change.
PepsiCo and Coca-Cola sued over plastic pollution and misleading recycling claims
The legal challenge asserts that PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have falsely promoted their products as recyclable, despite knowing the significant environmental harm plastic pollution causes.
The plastics industry’s wish list for a second Trump administration
Endorsed by petrochemical lobbyists, the legislation is being criticized by environmentalists who are calling it the industry’s own Project 2025.
Bottled water’s rising toll on planetary and human health
With approximately one million bottles purchased every minute globally, experts are warning that this trend has dire consequences for the environment, public health, and social justice.
Majority of US voters back legal action against plastics industry over...
The survey, conducted by the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) and Data for Progress, shows that 70 percent of likely U.S. voters would support legal action to hold the plastics and fossil fuel industries accountable for alleged deception.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.