Since the plastic bag tax has been introduced to the United Kingdom, there have been 40% less plastic bags per 100 meters of beach.
California just made history by becoming the first state in the USA to officially ban plastic bags.
Gov. Mapp sings proposal into law Oct. 7, 2016. This will restrict the use of plastic shopping bags in the territory beginning in 2017.
The Ocean Cleanup, a foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, has just presented the initial findings of its Aerial Expedition.
Current measurement methods may be vastly underestimating the amount of plastic in the oceans. A 2015 paper published in Science estimates that anywhere from 4.8 million to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic were dumped into the ocean in 2010 alone.
Japanese scientists have discovered a bacterium that produces a never-before-seen enzyme that can fully break down PET plastics.
