Tag: plastic pollution
How many cigarette butts are littering your local beach?
Cigarette butts are one of the most common kind of plastic pollution found on Great Lakes beaches.
How many cigarette butts are littering your local beach?
Cigarette butts are one of the most common kind of plastic pollution found on Great Lakes beaches.
Great Lakes microplastics research could inform national and global policy
As experts gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, this month to negotiate an enforceable global plastic pollution treaty, scientists studying the Great Lakes continued their research that could pinpoint how microplastics impact […]
Two-Thirds Of River Trash Is Plastic (Research)
The following information is somewhat difficult on an emotional level, but important to consider. It might be difficult because pesky, toxic fossil fuel pollution seems to get into almost everything: air, oceans, soil, food, etc. Plastics typically are made from fossil fuels. If you read CleanTechnica with any regularity, you … [continued]
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Petrostates Blow Up UN Plastics Conference
Plastics were the topic at a UN conference in Geneva last week, but no progress was made thanks to opposition from petrostates.
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