Billions of tonnes of plastic accumulating on Earth
More than 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastic has been produced since 1950 according to the first major global analysis of mass-produced plastics. Nearly 80% of this plastic ended up …
Are your clothes polluting the ocean?
BBC News report of an recent lab study, which found that polyester and acrylic clothing shed thousands of plastic fibres each time it was washed. Sending another source of plastic …
Plastic Waste: German Seas suffer also
The Group of Twenty (G20), composed of the most important industrial and emerging countries, has agreed on an action plan against marine garbage, especially plastic, at a conference from May …
Microplastics: A Danger to the World Environment and Human Health
A study of microplastics in the Great Lakes in North America published in September 2016 provides additional evidence that polyester fibers in clothing pose a previously unacknowledged risk to the …