How installation art can make plastic waste more tangible

A walk along the Kent coast after a storm inspired one of my early works. The shoreline was covered in seaweed, shells, ...
CNN

A year ago, I hoarded my trash to track my waste. Here’s what I swapped, and still swear by, to cut out single-use plastic

This article is part of CNN Underscored’s Earth Week, a weeklong focus on our planet and ways to celebrate and preserve it. We’ll be featuring tips on how to live more sustainably, products to help ...
NPR

I avoided plastic for a week. Here is what I learned about a plastic-free life

Americans, on average, toss out about three quarters of a pound of plastic each day, according to researchers at Oxford University. Most of that trash winds up in a landfill. As someone who loves ...
Nature

‘A double-whammy problem’: how plastic dust is altering natural processes

Researcher Karin Kvale first became interested in plastic pollution when she was living in Kiel, Germany, where her young children spent part of their school days on Falckenstein beach. “Every day ...
Forbes

Reducing Plastic Waste: How Businesses Can Help Build A Greener World

In the 2008 Disney film Wall-E, a tiny robot finds himself alone on planet Earth, working to clean up a world decimated by trash and abandoned by humans who left it that way. Heartwarming as the film ...
CNN

How extreme weather is making plastic pollution more mobile, more persistent and more hazardous

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...