The research published in ACS Environmental Science & Technology Water, finds handwashing clothes reduces microplastic pollution and is “environmentally Previous research has shown microplastics (tiny plastic particles or fibres smaller than 5mm in diameter) are released when clothes are machine-washed. These…

Global plastic pollution remains one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. A new OECD report shows that plastic consumption has quadrupled over the past 30 years. Globally, only 9% of plastic waste is recycled, while 50% ends up in landfills,…

Let’s start with a fact: globally we’ve generated 7 billion tonnes of plastic waste in under a century of trying.  Less than 10 percent of that has ever been recycled. In Australia, the numbers aren’t much higher – only 13…

Last Friday, a “bomb train” including five train cars filled with vinyl chloride, most commonly used to make PVC and other toxic plastics, derailed along the border between the States of Ohio and Pennsylvania in the U.S. In order to avoid explosions Norfolk Southern,…

Hundreds of storks are getting hooked on a ‘trash diet’ in Spain, sticking near landfill sites instead of flying south to Africa. As with so many upsets to the natural world, climate change and pollution are to blame. Higher temperatures…

A carbon credit is a license or certificate that allows its holder, for example a company, to emit CO2 or other greenhouse gases. Each credit limits emissions to one tonne of CO2. The ultimate goal of carbon credits is to reduce greenhouse gas…