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These Edible Six-Pack Rings Could End Up Saving a Lot of Ocean Life

We all like drinking beer, but who has the time to stand next to the recycling, cutting up the six-pack rings afterwards? The answer is: a lot of people. The problem is: no one does it. And since your decision to toss back a few cold ones shouldn’t have to endanger our planet’s

There Will Be More Plastic Garbage Than Fish in Our Oceans By 2050

Flotsam – great word, terrible actual thing. Case in point: by the year 2050, there will be more flotsam – plastic garbage, specifically – occupying our oceans than living, breathing aquatic life. This grim forecast comes from a study conducted by the World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which says the

A Dutch Company Wants to Build Roads Using Recycled Plastic From the Ocean

For all the reasons we should be eliminating plastic from our lives, future road construction might not be one of them. Dutch construction firm VolkerWessels recently announced a project aptly called PlasticRoad, which would be the world’s most sustainable alternative to conventional road structures. According to the release, PlasticRoad would consist

Hawaii Just Became the First State to Fully Ban Plastic Bags

Banning plastic bags is a hot topic in North America. Toronto had a pretty contentious bid to rid the city of them a few years ago, Montreal’s mulling the issue, and California’s effort to abandon plastic bags was an amusing back-and-forth over several months. Hawaii, on the other hand, isn’t messing