by Beth Holmes | Jun 7, 2021 | Environmental hazards
On May 15, the MV X-Press Pearl departed Hazira, India with a cargo of hazardous chemicals and a belly full of oil. Registered in Singapore, the newly built container ship was bringing its load to ports in Qatar and Dubai. As the ship neared its destination, the crew...
by Admin | Nov 25, 2020 | Articles, Business, Conservation, Sustainability
Isaac Graubard is thirteen years old, and he learned something this year during lockdown. “After doing some research,” he said in an interview with CBS2, “I only found out that 9 percent of plastics get recycled, and it’s sickening to think that we try so hard...
by Admin | May 15, 2020 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Information
If you’ve kept even half an eye on eco-aware headlines in the past twenty years, you’ve seen the word microplastics. What it means is simple: any piece of waste plastic less than 5mm in size, or in other words, smaller than a ladybug or a baby aspirin, is considered a...
by Admin | Oct 25, 2019 | Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Did you know that a whopping 380 million tons of plastic are created worldwide each year? Worse yet, as the plastics market continues to increase, many analysts are predicting that plastic production could quadruple by 2050. The trouble with all this plastic...
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...
