plastic waste
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Soap on tap? A startup arrives in NYC with a plan to take the plastic out of cleaning products.
Head for the kiosk to resupply your soap and sanitizer, and don’t forget your RFID-enabled refillable bottle.
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Mardi Gras floods New Orleans in plastic beads. One scientist has a gooey fix.
New Orleans vacuumed 93,000 pounds of plastic beads out of its storm drains last year.
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It’s tine to take America’s plastic fork problem seriously
Wait, we toss out how many plastic utensils every year?
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Forget recycling. Let’s turn old plastic into fuel.
Plastic-to-fuel technology could help us tackle our huge plastic waste problem.
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Pacific Garbage Patch has gotten 100 times worse in 40 years
Since the 1970s, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an area of the ocean clotted with plastic microparticles -- has grown 100-fold. And this is very bad news, not only because of the creatures it harms but because of the ones it helps.
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Delicious, edible food packaging could curb plastic waste
If you want to know why the earth and waterways are quickly morphing into giant garbage heaps, look no further than your pudding cup. Desserts, sodas, yogurts, and every other processed treat that comes tucked inside a plastic container are creating a slew of plastic pollution. But Harvard scientist David Edwards has an innovative — and […]