Going Zero-Plastic for a Week: Lessons in Conscious Consumption
In early December of 2018, the Royal Statistical Society announced their international statistic of the year: 90.5%. This number stood for the portion of plastic waste that has never been recycled, totaling roughly 6,300 million metric tons.
5 Easy Changes That Reduced My Plastic Consumption—with Big Impacts
A plastic bag takes 500 years to break down, and the use of plastics is increasing, not decreasing, which means the problem will only get bigger if nothing is done.
The Miami Hurricanes vs Plastic Pollution
Each year, around 8 million tons of plastic waste enter the world’s oceans. This uniquely damaging form of pollution harms and kills many kinds of wildlife , both in and out of the water, from whales and dolphins to seabirds.
Plastic vs. Paper — The Quest for Sustainability
Plastic pollution is a global sustainability problem. Enough plastic is dumped into the world’s oceans each year that it could fill five grocery bags for every foot of coastline around the globe, according to scientists. The figures are staggering.
