Much of plastic pollution comes from a simple source: plastic packaging. Plastic is a cheap and versatile substance that can be readily made and used. Then again, it can just as easily be dumped after a singe use, which has led to massive amounts of plastic waste befouling more and…
We have, ladies and gentlemen, entered the Anthropocene. Whether we should be happy about that is another matter altogether. The “Anthropocene” is a new epoch in the life of the planet that has been so named because of human beings’ outsize, and invariably harmful, effects on Planet Earth. Endemic pollution, human-induced…
The world’s oceans (you may well have heard this before) are fast becoming deluged with endless tons of plastic rubbish. Very little of those massive amounts of plastic waste is biodegradable, meaning most of it will take hundreds, if not thousands, of years to degrade naturally. In the meantime, it…