DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Independent agency M&C Saatchi won an award for its plastic pollution awareness campaign The Plastic Forecast , made for Australian philanthropic organisation the Minderoo Foundation, which visualises the weight of microplastics falling from the sky in raindrops on a given day.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

The money behind INEOS and Borealis , argues demand for plastic is set to fall in the coming years due to incoming laws aimed at curbing plastic use, and that therefore banks are putting their investments at risk. The study, Who finances the plastic flood?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The survey showed over a third of smokers (34%) believe it takes less than a year for a cigarette butt to decompose but the truth is it doesn’t ever decompose and can take up to 10 years to start breaking down into microplastics. Cleaning up littered cigarette butts currently costs UK local authorities around £40 million per year2.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

What makes this particularly worrisome is that humans can be exposed to endocrine-disrupting chemicals simply by touching plastic, inhaling microplastics within dust, and eating food or drinking water that has been in contact with plastic. Those facing the greatest risk tend to be residents of low-income communities and people of color.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

On some of the beaches in Hawaii’s Big Island, as much as 15% of the “sand” is actually grains of microplastic. Make the state carbon neutral by 2045 , per House Bill 2182 , signed into law in June, 2018. Reduce waste by 70% by 2030 , in line with the Aloha+ Challenge.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

CLOs have to keep up with a rapidly evolving patchwork of state laws governing plastic use and disposal, driven by activists, regulators and consumers. There are special challenges in this COVID-19 era, as single-use plastics, including disposable masks laced with microplastic fibers, flood waste streams and waterways at unprecedented levels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

Every year, a million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals are killed by plastic pollution, while the average person eats about 70,000 particles of microplastic each year, with the long-term effects still not understood. Nor is there any sign that the plastics tide is being turned back - rather, it continues to grow at a startling pace.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

From large pieces, such as bottles, cups, and even a Smurf action figure, to tiny microplastics — fragments, films, fibers, or foams less than 5 mm long — plastic is one of the most common pollutants this group will find, mirroring what cleanup crews regularly see across the country. We found microplastics everywhere,” Granek says.

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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

CLOs have to keep up with a rapidly evolving patchwork of state laws governing plastic use and disposal, driven by activists, regulators and consumers. There are special challenges in this COVID-19 era, as single-use plastics, including disposable masks laced with microplastic fibers, flood waste streams and waterways at unprecedented levels.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Related: One plastic teabag can release billions of microplastics into your cup As a replacement, hotels can offer bulk products, such as wall-mounted public dispensers. During this adjustment to the new law, all hotels and lodging establishments are given time to exhaust their current stock of single-use plastic personal care products.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 14, 2023

💧 Matter , an Ahmedabad, India-based microplastic recycling platform, raised $10M from S2G Ventures, Builders Vision, and SOUNDWaves. in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. 💧 Membrion , a Seattle, WA-based membrane technology for wastewater treatment developer, raised $5.5M

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Last year, as part of its landmark Climate Law the French government proposed to abolish flights between cities that are less than two and half hours apart by train. The rules will initiall cover just a handful of routes, but the government has indicated that if after three years the ban proves successful it could be extended.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Meanwhile new threats are seeping into our waters, including microplastics and so-called forever chemicals. Most people know about our regulatory work, which is largely about seeking to ensure that the laws that protect our waters are upheld and that those who fail to do that and cause severe or deliberate damage are punished.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Of the plastic waste we generate, at least eight million tons up in our ocean every year, and it is estimated that the seas now contain about 51 trillion microplastic particles - 500 times more than stars in our galaxy. This is too little, too late. Coral is 20 times more likely to become diseased upon coming into contact with plastics.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 1, 2019

Illumina is largely credited with breaking Moore’s Law in genomics by introducing next-generation sequencing. Problems with overfishing, toxins and microplastics showing up in our seafood, as well as market volatility, certainly contribute to an interest in this area. . 1 – Cell ag needs an Illumina moment. It took $2.7

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Through his passion for the outdoors, he witnessed the effects of microplastic pollution on the environment. When Fionn was in high school, he invented a new method of extracting microplastics from the water using his own version of ferrofluid, a liquid developed by NASA.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 19, 2024

Last week, AI was used to discover new battery materials and this week, AI helped detect microplastics in wastewater. Others felt the law would change regardless of the winner; Trump ditching and Biden going further.  But AI’s potential comes at an enormous energy cost.   Yes (61%).   No (39%).

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