111 Million Tons of Plastic With Nowhere to Go

According to a study, more than 90% of the world’s sea birds have plastic in their gut. The amount of plastic being dumped into our rivers and oceans is alarming. More than 8 million tons of marine pl.....»»

14 million tons of plastic packaging go into landfills—or the ocean—every year. But some retailers are trying to change that. CBS News’ Farrah Fazal goes inside the zero-waste movement......»»

Each year we produce nearly 300 million tons of plastic and by 2050 there will be more of it than fish in our oceans. Here are five things you can do to help reduce your plastic use......»»

Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar Humans produce an estimated 300 million tons of plastic every year. But plastic is increasingly being recognized as one of the biggest threats to the environment. Reuters sent photographers around.....»»

The VergeChina's plastic waste ban will leave 111 million tons of trash with nowhere to goThe VergeChina's recent cra.....»»

New research from the University of Georgia estimates that by 2030 a total of 111 million tons of plastic waste will have nowhere to go except into landfills and polluting the envirnoment......»»

A collaboration between High Point's Culp Inc, and Greensboro's Unifi have recycled 63 million plastic bottles into mattress and upholstery fabrics......»»

New York City doesn't process its own trash. The city exports it.....»»

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Despite misogynistic professors and professionals, Cristina Aleixendri co-founded bound4blue, aiming to reduce cargo ship CO2 emissions by 540k tons. .....»»

The food-and-beverage giant generated about 57 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions globally in 2019.....»»

Adidas is working on several sustainability initiatives, including developing this new material, which will be made from mycelium, part of a fungus. Adidas Adidas is developing a plant-bas.....»»

Mark Conlin/VW PICS/UIG via Getty Images Customs officials in Hong Kong seized over 28 tons of shark fin this week, .....»»

  Patagonia's line of its cult-favorite Black Hole bags made from a total of 10 million recycled plastic bo.....»»

Carbon emissions from Feb. 1 and March 19 fell by more than 10 million tons from the same period last year (Bloomberg)—Airlines’ carbon emissi.....»»

Sold 6.6 million tons in the fourth quarter of 2019 and 30.5 million tons for full year 2019 Generated cash flow from operating activities of $35 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 and $104 m.....»»

Istvan Simon's factory in western Hungary churns out more than a million plastic parts a day but on a busy morning in one of its large production halls there is only the sound of machines clicking and whirring. Workers have all but disappeared......»»

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The Port of Baltimore handled 43.6 million tons of international cargo in 2019 — a new record for the combined amount moved through the state- and privately-owned marine terminals. The high figure was boosted by an increase in the number of container.....»»

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