Greenability Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

This Earth Day will be bigger than ever, offering the public the opportunity to join events around the world as it will be mostly virtual again in response to COVID-19. Earth Day will be celebrated with live, interactive events in Kansas City and worldwide. On the first Earth Day in 1970, U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2024

Launched ahead of Earth Day 2024 (22nd April), with this year’s theme being Planet Vs. Plastic, the report (titled ‘How Much Plastic Is In The Ocean?’) ’) profiles industry data on the topic, with specific sections on plastic bags, straws, bottles, and microplastics. Where does it come from?

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Martin LaMonica

DECEMBER 28, 2018

On Earth Day, the United Nations issued its first State of Plastics report , calling for more recycling and better ways to manufacture and manage the material in its many forms. But much of the plastic pollution in the oceans is microplastics – many times smaller than the width of a human hair. We are guinea pigs.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Today’s renewed interest in space travel has revived environmentalists’ long-simmering antagonism against it, tracing back to the early days of the space program in the late 1960s. Space travel has been criticized, then and now, as a waste of money and resources and a distraction from more pressing problems.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

That’s why we launched the Policy Lab on Earth Day in 2021. Matter has designed sophisticated filters to keep microplastics out of our waterways, protecting public health and ecosystems crucial for reducing carbon emissions. Startups are nimble and ready to spring to action.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

Unlike several other Earth Day weekend cleanups going on farther down the beach, this group has been given special instructions that will help them categorize and log everything they find, from food scraps and toys to tiny pieces of foil and, of course, many types of plastic. Is it dog waste? Is the trash from camping?

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