Tag Archives: plastic

From the fifties to today, plastic has become omnipresent, to the point that for some a world without this material has become conceivable. But after having produced about nine billion tons of virgin plastic materials, accumulated in landfills and then dispersed in natural environments, it has gone from being a useful resource to one of the […]

Can plastic waste become an element of art? Oddly enough, but yes. You can reuse it to create something beautiful, as the artist Veronika Richterovà did. The problems related to the use (and abuse) of plastic are well known. While experts warn that, at this rate, by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish […]

Time’s up: the documentary on plastic pollution directed by Mike Wafer and produced by Poppy Chandler is almost out. But it’s almost the time of our last chance to save our seas and oceans. If we don’t adopt the adequate strategies and measures, the consequences of our actions will become irreversible. The filmmakers are experts […]

Day by day our seas are threatened by plastic pollution. The situation is serious, but world is ready to change for the better. Today plastic is one of the most important cause of pollution of the environment. Seas are living a very critical situation of which Pacific trash vortex is the clearest evidence of that. […]

Oceans cover almost three quarters of the our Earth’s surface and are home to a huge number of animals: from tiny plankton to the world’s biggest animal, the blue whale. The entire habitat is threatened by a common enemy. We are talking about plastic. The Ocean is of major importance for our ecosystem, but is also […]

Our actual plastic age lifestyle is unsustainable. Therefore, scientists all around the world are looking not only for plastic alternatives, but also for ways, how to solve the actual problem of plastic waste. On a landfill site in Pakistan, scientists discovered, that fungus called Aspergillus tubingensis can feeds on plastic. A group of researchers from […]

Do you think that’s possible for one person to produce more than 156 kg of packaging waste per year? No? Unfortunately somehow you can, and you probably do too. This is indeed the average of packaging waste generation for inhabitant in the European Union, a truly excessive amount that damages the environment and oceans irreversibly. We had already spoken […]

The numbers in the study of the MacArthur Foundation, presented at the opening of the World Economic Forum in Davos, are alarming and shocking. If nothing will change, if mankind will continue to destroy the seas of the Earth, in 2050 there will be more plastic than fish. Our plastic production does not diminish but […]

San Francisco bans plastic bottles, and it’s the first city to do so. The citizens, though encouraged to use clean and free tap water, can still purchase plastic bottles; but in public buildings and properties of the city plastic bottles will become illegal in a few days. In the United States each year are used almost 50 […]