Many of us have changed the way we think about plastic over the last couple of years, swapping single-use shopping bags for reusable totes, and plastic bottles of water for those that can be used ...
More than 400 million metric tons of plastic is produced annually, and only a small fraction is recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, or leaks into the natural environment, which is impacting ...
There are more sustainable options than using single-use plastics and plastic food storage. And some of them will keep your ...
Your kitchen is one of the biggest sources of daily microplastic exposure — here are 16 ways to change that fast.
Microplastics gush out of our taps and flake off cookware. They find their way into the yolks of eggs, and deep into meat and vegetables. But if we take certain steps, we can eat less of them. You can ...
Plastic pollution is the most visible example of the havoc we’re causing to our planet. From our local beaches to the remote Arctic, it is choking our oceans and killing wildlife. One in two marine ...
Jim Doucette, EY-Parthenon Global Consumer Products and Retail Leader, and Kim Paykel, UK Consumer Products & Retail Sustainability Leader at EY, explore the issues around reducing the use of plastic ...
The new environment bill, a set of government proposals designed to legislate on environmental protection, was supposed to represent a real turning point on plastics. Indications from the government ...
Microplastics are one of the greatest manmade disasters of our time. They’re everywhere – from remote places with no human habitations to the food on our plates and in the water we drink. So how ...
No corner of the planet is free from minuscule fragments of plastic packaging, textiles or utensils. We ask scientists what this means for our health – and what we should do to protect it Invisible ...
Microplastics are turning up almost everywhere scientists look. As studies stack up linking these tiny plastic fragments to ...
According to Greenpeace, only 9% of the world's plastic gets recycled. Instead, plastic waste continues to collect in our landfills and in our oceans. Other than recycling, the only way to reduce ...