Europe’s Plastic Packaging Reset By 2030, the way Europe packages food, serves takeaway meals and delivers everyday products could look very different. The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulat...

Airborne microplastics settle on farmland, rivers and oceans. Scientists are working to measure how much falls–and what it means for the environment.

Welcome to Medianet’s daily media alert featuring a curated list of today's most newsworthy press releases handpicked by our editorial team. Today's highlights ABS suicide data release reinforces impo...

Today is World Sea Turtle Day! And now more than ever, these beloved animals need our help. Ocean Conservancy released a new review of plastic ingestion by wildlife which found that over half of the...

Just one load of laundry can release up to 18 million microplastic fibers, with many making their way into our ocean. Microplastic fibers are NSFW—Not Safe For Wash.

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The Danish Environment Protection Agency says nurdles it has tested are similar to the Tyne pellets.

We’re calling on our elected leaders to reject the deceptively named Recycled Materials Attribution Act (RMAA) and the Packaging and Claims Knowledge (PACK) Act. Join us:

No place on Earth is immune from microplastic pollution, and that includes our ocean. We need advocates like YOU to help push for policies and innovations that can help keep our ocean, and our beloved...

Waste Is a Design Problem, Not Just a Disposal Problem Everything we consume leaves a footprint. But what happens when we throw something away? The truth is, waste never simply disappears. Plastic c...

A powerful storm swept a live seal onto a beach near Vester Vedsted, south of Ribe, DR reports. A dead duck and plastic, driftwood and paraffin oil also washed ashore after the storm raised water levels along Jutland’s west coast. Jan Ryttergaard, a nature guide at the Wadden Sea Centre in Vester…

Food and beverage giants Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and Danone have committed to change recycling claims advertised on their plastic bottles following dialogue with the European Commission and the Consumer Pr...

When air bubbles become a solution to plastic pollution 🌊♻️ What if cleaning a river required a curtain of air instead of a physical barrier? In the Netherlands, an innovative technology uses air bu...

The city of Orlando is known above all else for its world-class amusement parks. In fact, hundreds of thousands of people visit the city every year from all across the globe. They might never step foot on one of Florida’s famous beaches. But in the Sunshine State, where the ocean is never more than 60 miles away, all water is connected—and what happens on land has downstream impacts on the coasts. Street litter can travel through canals and streams and out into the ocean. In fact, Ocean Conservancy conducted a study with University of Georgia’s Circularity Informatics Lab to investigate where waste comes from, how it moves through a community, and where it ends up. The assessment found that plastic fragments, tobacco products and food-related plastic packaging are among the area’s most common litter items, while plastic bags are the largest source of recycling-bin contamination. The assessment also found that Orlando uses more plastic-foam takeout packaging than other Florida cities studied, highlighting opportunities to reduce waste before it reaches streets, waterways and the ocean. Working together Along the way, plastic pollution can harm fish, birds and manatees. Even small amounts of ingested plastic can have devastating consequences. Concerned residents of...

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On Oakland's Creek to Bay Day, I and more than 100 other volunteers joined I Heart Oakland-Alameda Estuary to remove thousands of pounds of shoreline trash.