by Beth Holmes | Feb 13, 2023 | Business, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
A sperm whale has been found dead on a beach in Hawaii, its body full of hundreds of pounds of ingested plastic waste. Saturday, January 28th, a 56-foot sperm whale was found deceased on a reef of Kauai. Scientists, who rarely get to study the deep ocean predators,...
by Beth Holmes | Nov 22, 2021 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
Single-use plastic waste is the target of a new Los Angeles ordinance that went into effect November 15, 2021. Approved by the City Council back in April, LA’s new city ordinance targets plastic waste from restaurants and other food venues. It’s a simple...
by Admin | Jul 26, 2017 | Environmental hazards
Since 1950, industry has made more than 9.1 billions of tons of plastics. But plastic doesn’t degrade like other, more natural, materials, so now there’s enough of it left over to bury Manhattan in over 2 miles of plastic waste. This news comes from an article in the...
