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WHY GIVING UP THE USE OF STRAWS IS GOOD FOR YOU – AND THE PLANET You may have seen a few campaigns on social media recently about major corporations like Bacardi pledging to eliminate straws from all company functions as well as campaigns from numerous groups like #stopsucking.  The initiatives behind these campaigns are to […]

There’s no denying that plastic bags are bad for the environment. It’s well researched and well documented – and yet 160,000 plastic bags are still used every second around the world. This needs to change, so we’ve put together some facts that will change the way you (and your friends) use plastic bags (and hopefully […]

Source: IUCN Tiny plastic particles washed off products such as synthetic clothes and car tyres could contribute up to 30% of the ‘plastic soup’ polluting the world’s oceans and – in many developed countries – are a bigger source of marine plastic pollution than plastic waste, according to a new IUCN report. The report looked […]

If it smells like food, and looks like food, it must be food, right? Not in the case of ocean-faring birds that are sometimes found with bellies full of plastic. But very little research examines why birds make the mistake of eating plastic in the first place. It turns out that marine plastic debris emits […]

While famine, poverty, violence, and economic inequality continue to plague our world, the greatest threat we face is silent. The greatest killer of our environment lives among us – PLASTIC. The nice little plastic bottle that your favorite drink comes in, the mess-free plastic Styrofoam boxes that accompany every one of your Sherpa meals, even […]