Almost $20 billion has been pledged at a conference held in Panama in an effort to expand and improve biodiverse marine protected areas around the world.
In India, cigarette butts are being recycled into stuffing for soft toys and pillows.
Stella McCartney, one of the more eco-friendly luxury fashion houses, is now partnering with Protein Evolution, Inc. to recycle textile waste into new fabrics.
Los Angeles, the largest city in California, United States, recently passed a bill to ban polystyrene on its territory and goes further by enforcing tighter restrictions regarding the use of other kinds of single-use plastic.
Single-use plastic bags have been banned in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates for the past six months, leading to a 90% decrease in the polluting material's overall use.
Accumulation of plastic waste could become a thing of the past thanks to wax worms and their saliva capable of breaking down plastic in mere hours, a potential game-changer in the way we fix this environmental problem.
In July 2022, the world's first "bubble barrier" was introduced in Katwijk, Netherlands.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located in the North Pacific Ocean, is 100,000 kilograms lighter in plastic - thanks to the first of many successful operations to clean up the sea.
California became the first American state to adopt an ambitious law meant to curb single-use plastics considerably with different measures, including ensuring economic responsibility on plastic producers.
As of December 2022, manufacturing and importing single-use plastic will be banned in Canada, an electoral promise coming to reality as a decisive effort to fight climate change and pollution alike.
