Tags: Plastic

Ooho Makes 'Eating' Water Possible! Edible Water Bottle Ball Aims To Replace Plastic Bottles

TECH & INNOVATION 04.16.2017 18:15 PM

Find out all about the edible water bottle product here. Ooho is a drinking water product created by a startup known as Skipping Rocks Lab. The product is reported to hype up the internet due to making “eating water” possible and getting rid of plastic bottles at the same time.

Food Watch: Insane Amount Of Plastic Found In Ocean Enters The Food Chain [WATCH]

03.13.2017 09:28 AM

Studies conclude that humans are in danger from the huge quantities of manmade, toxic plastic that marine life is already being harmed from. Humans are the end consumer of this food chain that is increasingly getting polluted with plastic waste.

Biodegradable Plastics May Not Be As Environmentally Friendly Once Thought

03.31.2015 09:41 AM

A new study reveals that biodegradable plastics are not biodegradable after all. Don't be fooled by a label. Get the scoop here!

Plastic from Egg Whites Could Offer Safer, Biodegradable Alternative to Conventional Plastic

03.30.2015 16:17 PM

Plastic from Egg Whites Could Solve Two Issues Plastic really is a great material. It's relatively easy to produce, and can have a wide range of chemical and physical properties.

Can You Fathom the Trash? New Study Reveals Eight Million Tons of Plastic Trash Reach the Oceans Each Year

02.13.2015 18:42 PM

If you were to guess the amount of tonnage of trash in the sea, we bet that you’d be off by a couple of millions. That’s right, millions with an “M”. You may think that you can estimate the trash based on what you see at the beach, but researchers say that the calculation is a bit more complex than what the average guesser might think.

Plastic Pollution Causes ‘Tons’ of Problems as New Estimates Reveal Litter on the Rise

12.15.2014 17:19 PM

While the biochemistry of the world’s oceans may be a complex study, with a myriad of variants, researchers are certain of one simple fact—man-made plastics do not belong in the oceans. And the pollution of our oceans is far more vast than the world would like to admit. But in a new study recently published in this week’s issue of the journal PLOS ONE researchers are saying that the Earth’s oceans may contain more than 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic particulates, weighing nearly 270,000 tons combined which is far larger than previous studies ever estimated the pollution to be.

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