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A nifty idea: a biodegradable water bottle made from algae
A young inventor has fashioned a new biodegradable bottle out of a powdered form of red algae.
A brewery creates edible can holders to save sea creatures
Here comes the answer to a particular bane of sea-dwelling creatures: edible drink holders that they can consume.
Microplastics have ended up in our table salt
You may be consuming microplastics just by putting salt in your food. Disturbing? You bet.
Seeking to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste
There’s a lot of plastic trash in the world’s oceans – that we have long known. Turns out, though, that there is even more of it than we’ve thought. That is according to a Dutch foundation, which is planning a
A restaurant chain replaces plastic drinking straws with water spinach stems
A Bangkok-based restaurant chain has decided to replace ubiquitous plastic straws with an ecofriendly alternative.
Bank on it: How Social Plastic® is a sustainable business win
Social Plastic® is a solution to earth’s overwhelming plastic pollution problem that relies on the simplest of concepts.