plastic

Environmental campaigners are rejecting the sustainable credentials of clothing made of recycled plastic bottles, saying that it only adds to “fashion’s waste crisis”….
We saw up close the paradox of plastic, part wonder material, part environmental scourge. Lightweight and strong, plastic preserves food like no other material. Yet…
Consumers are making easy swaps to plastic-free products – so businesses are responding by changing the materials they use….
Last weekend Goumbook launched the nation-wide “Refill Champions” youth ambassadorship program, raising awareness on issues related to bottled drinking water in the region compared to…
Working in collaboration with colleagues at universities and institutions in the UK, China and Saudi Arabia, researchers in the Edwards/ Xiao group at Oxford’s Department…
Is plastics recycling a lie? That’s the question at the heart of a new investigation into whether Americans have been filling up their blue bins…
Around the world, a million bottles of water are sold every minute, and although they’re almost entirely recyclable, most get tossed into landfills, clog up…
COVID-19 triggered an estimated global use of 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves every month. If we stitched together all of the masks…
Some bioplastics are compostable, but they generally require an industrial composting facility to process these materials. Many towns and cities do not have access to…
Becoming Zero Waste is not something that happens overnight according to Doua Benhida, Founder of The Zero Waste Collective. She started her journey nearly two…