Humans generate a lot of trash, but there are cheaper and safer ways to handle it than loading it on rockets.
Pam Longobardi collects and documents ocean plastic waste and transforms it into public art and photography. Her work makes statements about consumption, globalism and conservation.
Remote islands in the Indian Ocean are now strewn with plastic waste – the origin of this waste has until now not been established.
The plastic industry uses powerful tactics to convince us it’s not that bad, but in reality many of their green solutions aren’t working.
Plastic is made from oil and natural gas, which started out as fossilized plant and animal material. But buried deep underground for millions of years, those materials changed in important ways.
Without action in the next five years, an extra 80 million tonnes of plastic may end up in the ocean by 2040.
Public, government and corporate support for a world treaty to curb plastic waste is growing. Treaties addressing mercury pollution, long-range air pollution and ozone depletion offer some lessons.
In spite of monsoon season and cyclone Nivar, the most recent floods are largely man-made disasters.
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