Tag: Plastics - Page 2
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Plastic Pollution Costs Scotland's Maritime Industry £17 Million Annually
Beachgoers themselves are responsible for 37% of all plastic litter, which now accounts to two-thirds of Scotland's beach and coastal litter.
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Could New York Be a Less Wasteful Marathon?
The New York City Marathon is one of the world's largest races. Now, one group is working to place it among the most sustainable, too.
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La Siesta Terracotta Water Bottle: Based on Tradition But With a Modern Shape
This fresh take on water storage uses porous terracotta to keep drinking water cool and is based on an old Spanish design.
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Architecture Students Strut Their Stuff in Habitat For Humanity Competition to Design a Sustainable Home
If you ignore the fundamental problem with this competition's sponsorship by the Vinyl industry, there is some interesting stuff going on.
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The Sea Chair Project Turns Fishermen Into Chair-makers and Rids the Ocean of Plastic Waste (Photos)
The ‘Sea Chair’ is made entirely from plastic recovered from our oceans. Together, Studio Swine and Kieren Jones have created devices to collect and process marine debris into a series of stools.
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9 Eco-Savvy School Supplies for Teens and Tots
Virgin paper and pencils and plastic, oh no! The new school year can be tough on the environment: Show some good green school spirit with these eco-friendly workarounds for the K-12 set.
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Does the World Really Need the Chork?
Move over spork, there’s a new weird hybrid utensil in town.
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Doing Away With Disposable Packaging
Go Box founder Laura Weiss has worked hard to make Portland (foodie paradise) just a little more sustainable, waste wise, with her system of reusable to go containers.
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Update on The American High-Performance Buildings Coalition: Their Website is Live, and Here Are Their Members
A shocking list of every plastics and chemical company in North America.
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Plastic People Set Up "American High-Performance Buildings Coalition" To Fight Restrictions on Plastics in Green Building
They claim that their poison plastics are "are essential for energy-efficient building."
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Study Finds Bird Ingestion of Plastic in North Pacific Among Highest in the World
Seabirds are eating ocean plastic pollution at an all time rate, and the problem is only getting worse.
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Marine Drone Concept Cleans Up Plastics In The Ocean
A team of designers have come up with an autonomous robot concept that will net plastic pollution in the oceans.
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Poignant Museum Exhibit Illustrates Plastic Catastrophe
A new exhibit "Out to Sea? The Plastic Garbage Project" presents collected plastic garbage from all the world’s seas.
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Rio +20: Who is Really Responsible for Responsibility
TerraCycle looks at why all companies should begin a sustainability initiative.
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Keep Cool With A Phase-Changing Dress Shirt
That's not the only thing it does, as engineers reinvent the classic dress shirt
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Firefighters Change Tactics In Face Of Faster Fires From Burning Plastics
Plastics and foams burn more quickly, and traditional fire fighting techniques may make them worse.
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Art Project Brings Beach Trash Back to Life
An environmental artist tackles the enormous plastic trash problem, one ink pen at a time.
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First Ever Map of Floating Plastic Aims to Save Baby Sea Turtles
With an ambitious goal of mapping floating plastic pollution, one PhD student from Australia is hoping to make a big difference for sea turtles.
