Category: Plastic pollution
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Mealworms help get rid of plastic waste—by eating it
With plastic waste being everywhere now (hellooooo, microplastics in the ocean and in our bodies!), scientists throughout the world have been studying ways to make plastic waste less of a problem by coming up with plastic alternatives, ways to dispose of plastic safely, or by making plastic compostable or biodegradable. Serbian scientists from Belgrade’s Institute…
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“The Story of Stuff” tells us more about the global plastics crisis: an update
Back in 2007, we linked to “The Story of Stuff,” an animated short about the plastic pollution problem. At the time, the short was available only as a Quicktime file, but it has since been made available on Youtube, which you can watch below. It’s interesting that the message of a short that was made…