The Green Elephant - Solutions for a Plastic Planet

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Are Plastic Bag Bans Garbage?A national movement to ban plastic bags is gaining steam, but these restrictions may actually hurt the environment more than help it.

Microplastics are found in Lake Tahoe's waters for first time ever

Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time

10 Ways to Reduce Plastic PollutionBy simply using less plastic, you can help keep marine life from eating and getting entangled in garbage.

Plastic Bag Bans Work

Banning Plastic Bags Is Great for the World, Right? Not So FastAdvocates for plastic bag bans often neglect to ask what will replace plastic bags and what the environmental impact of that replacement will be.

You're eating microplastics in ways you don't even realiseMicroplastics in seafood are well recorded but there are many other sources.

Students Can End Plastic Pollution | Earth Day Network

Why does the Arctic have more plastic than most places on Earth?Plastics travel on ocean currents and through the air to the far north and accumulate—sometimes inside the animals that live there.

New Study Finds 15.5 Million Tons of Microplastics Litter Ocean Floor

Plastic Tea Bags Release Billions of Microplastics Into Every Cup - D-briefResearchers find that steeping a single plastic mesh tea bag releases billions of microplastics and even smaller nanoplastics into your beverage.

Plastic pollution discovered at deepest point of oceanHigh levels of contamination in Mariana Trench show how pervasively planet has been contaminated

Microplastic pollution revealed ‘absolutely everywhere’ by new research

Microplastic in the atmosphere is making its way to the pristine Arctic

Most ambitious US law to tackle single-use plastics faces make-or-break moment

Do plastic bag taxes or bans curb waste? 400 cities and states tried it out.And will it work for plastic straws?

California Plastic Bag Bans Spur 120 Percent Increase in Sales of Thicker Plastic Garbage BagsA new study says plastic bag bans encourage people to use less eco-friendly substitutes.

Banning Straws and Bags Won’t Solve our Plastic ProblemAt worst, plastic bans can create unintended environmental problems. At best, they ignore the systemic issues creating waste in the first place.

15 Ways to Stop Microfiber Pollution Now — Plastic Pollution CoalitionEvery time you wash synthetic fabrics, millions of microfibers are released into the water. Here are 15 ideas to stop this pollution. 

Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated – studyParticles may outnumber zooplankton, which underpin marine life and regulate climate

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