plastic pollution
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The U.S. Barely Recycled Last Year
It’s easy to hate plastic recycling in the U.S. — even for the most conscious consumer.
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Bill Nye, the Sellout Guy
Bad news for everyone who loved watching Bill Nye the Science Guy during middle school science class: your fave is problematic. This week, Coca-Cola, one of the world’s biggest plastic polluters, teamed up with TV’s favourite scientist for a campaign to create a “world without waste,” a joke of a corporate greenwashing campaign.
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Samsung’s New Galaxy Phones Will Feature a Material Made Out of Discarded Fishing Nets
Your next Samsung Galaxy will feature a new material made of repurposed, discarded fishing nets that otherwise would have ended up in the oceans. There’s just one mystery: It’s not exactly clear what that material is. Consequently, we also don’t know how it will incorporated into the phone — if it’s actually in the phone…
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Striking NASA Animation Reveals the Dirty Truth About Ocean Plastic
The world dumps some 8 billion kilograms of plastic into the ocean every year — and now, you can check out how all that trash moves around. NASA released an animation showing shifting plastic concentrations in the world’s oceans over an 18-month period, the first research of its kind to map plastics on such a…