Plastic Waste

Desperate Bottled Water Industry Battles Trend Toward Tap (VIDEO)

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green


Lisa Kaas Boyle

As concerns mount over bottled water's impacts on the environment and human health, bottled water sales are beginning to dry up.

High School Student Discovers Plastic-Eating Microbe

Mother Nature Network | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green


Daniel had a thought it seems even the most esteemed microbiology PhD's hadn't considered. Plastic, one of the most indestructible of manufactured mat...

Jellyfish Spaghetti and Your own Carry Container = Happier Oceans

Graham Hill | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green


Graham Hill

Apart from an unexpected comeback of cod stocks in the Baltic Sea, it's hard to find good news about our oceans this year, and bottom trawlers and population pressures on Earth are not helping.

The Plastics "Out There" and "In Here"

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green


Wallace J Nichols

A huge percentage of our plastic problem could be addressed immediately, using simple, cost-effective, off-the-shelf technologies.