Management of plastic waste presents a major environmental challenge. Single-use plastic production has increased dramatically over the past 75 years, and as we know, plastic doesn’t decompose. So, where does it go? And what do we do with the ever-increasing amounts...
Why do we find so much plastic in tap and bottled water? Plastic doesn’t readily biodegrade- it only disintegrates into smaller and smaller pieces, releasing chemicals at each step of the way to your tap and bottled water. Plastic is Forever “Roughly two-thirds of all...
This week’s installment in our Plastic Series is on food and beverage packaging. Plastic packaging leads directly to human consumption of microplastics and associated chemicals in our day to day lives. Microplastics in our food and water are getting a lot of...
In Part 1, we unpacked how the materials used to make plastic (oil and natural gas) affect water sources. This week, we’ll continue our series with #NoSingleUsePlastic Part 2: Plastic Production. Plastic has its place and in many instances improves the quality...
Plastic. It’s everywhere. The pervasiveness of plastic is so ubiquitous that a recent study has shown that humans ingest on average “the equivalent of a credit card’s worth of plastic every week.” How, and why are we ingesting so much plastic? The answer is long...