5 Gyres - Understanding Plastic Pollution Through Exploration, Education, and Action

Here's a smart business alternative to the plastic straw.  If you know that plastic pollution is a problem, and you insist on giving your customers a straw, then this is the ethical alternative.  If you use this, then you will not only save…

Lightweight plastics such as plastic bags, films and wraps are commonly referred to by recyclers and waster management professionals as 'blow trash'.  Blow trash is amongst the worst offenders with regard to plastic pollution because thin,…

(Me, Gagged By A Plastic Bag)I just received a a google alert about plastic bags and was interested to learn that one of the top 25 censored stories by the media in 2011 is about bag ban stories being suppressed. No surprise here, really---…

The idea of a single, Texas-size garbage patch is the myth of media sensationalism.  It's lead to grandiose images of islands of trash, and enlivened the entrepreneurial spirit, like this post-consumer technofix.  And the plastics industry…