All posts in Plastics
These plastic items kill whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds
When animals eat plastic, it can block their digestive system, causing a long, slow death from starvation.
Camels in the Arabian Desert are dying of plastic waste
In Dubai alone hundreds of camels are known to have succumbed to plastic pollution.
Study in Denmark links PFBA chemicals with severe COVID
Researchers think they've found a link between patients experiencing severe COVID-19 and their exposure to PFBA.
Even babies consume large amounts of microplastics
In all, infants consume as many as 1.6 million polypropylene microplastic particles on average every single day.
Wasting waste: we must do better on recycling plastic
Current recycling commitments will only reduce annual plastic flows to the ocean by 7%. That's depressingly low.
Tackling the scourge of plastic in the oceans is a must
Plastic waste has reached catastrophic proportions in the oceans and it is increasing further still.