Toner pollutes Sri Lankan river

Toner pollutes Sri Lankan river

The Ma Oya river in Sri Lanka has been polluted with toner, due to the local practice of washing used toner cartridges and other discarded computer parts in the water. As News1st reports, despite a poster campaign by local authorities in the Sindhaanthriya area to...
India wages war on single-use plastic

India wages war on single-use plastic

The nation’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has declared that the country will rid itself of all single-use plastic by 2022, as The Guardian reports. In addition to this ambitious pledge, which “aims to drastically stem the flow of plastic from the 1.3 billion people...
BPF unveils new circular economy goals

BPF unveils new circular economy goals

With the aim of tackling the weighty problem of plastic pollution, as well as improving UK recycling rates, the British Plastics Federation has launched a new plan entitled Plastics: A Vision for a Circular Economy. With a recent survey revealing the full extent of...
Plastic lays a fatal swath in our oceans

Plastic lays a fatal swath in our oceans

The most recent infographic from CIG unveils the devastating toll that plastic pollution is taking on our oceans’ inhabitants. The infographic states, “Our marine life is suffering slow and painful deaths due to plastic pollution.” It goes on to give the dreadful...