Fish Gods LLC is proud to announce the launch of the Clean Earth Bag, a reusable bag made specifically for outdoor enthusiasts to pick up, contain, and recycle plastic and garbage pollution they encounter while in the outdoors.
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Overwhelmed by food waste? Changes big and small can be implemented to reduce the amount of food that is wasted around the world, country, and your home.
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Food waste is not a new issue, but the increased media coverage contrasting empty store shelves with extreme over-supplies of produce on farms has opened space for a discussion of our ongoing food waste epidemic.
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While we may all know a lot about the impacts of litter on marine ecosystems, we know very little about the human lives on land that are put in jeopardy every day due to litter.
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Is paper really the best alternative we have for plastic products? There are pros and cons to both, but do the cons of paper production outweigh the good? The papermaking process pollutes at almost every stage of production, so what’s the alternative?
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Planet Oat and Clean Trails, the organizers of National CleanUp Day, have provided a donation to The Red Cross to help combat the Western Wildfires and are continuing to find ways to provide relief and better lands across the U.S.
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Like any parent, I want to leave the world a better place for my child. But I also know that at some point, Generation Z is going to pick up the mantle and spearhead the charge to combat climate change, protect our environment, and save the planet.
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Nowhere, it seems, is immune from plastic pollution: plastic has been reported in the high Arctic oceans, in the sea ice around Antarctica, and even in the world’s deepest waters of the Mariana Trench.
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September was National CleanUp month, including the annual National CleanUp Day event on Saturday, September 19. Members of AllSeasons PR organized a local event to empower and CleanUp their community. Here’s how they did it.
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What type of litter is going into the ocean, and how does the total litter change over time? Here’s how San Diego local, Pocket Kaleta, used the Rubbish App to make a change at two area beaches.
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Our consumption of contaminated seafood, microplastics can potentially act as a toxin to humans. For the sake of our environmental and human health, it is important to seek areas of change in the harmful life cycle of plastics.
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The water that doesn’t soak into the soil flows across our yards, streets, and sidewalks into the storm drains on your street. As the water travels to the storm drain, it picks up any pollutants in its path like grass clippings, plastic trash, pet waste, motor oil, pesticides, and more.
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Are there solutions to rid our marine environment of the plastics that are negatively impacting everything from the fishing industry and food safety to tourism and the numerous species that depend on the ocean for their very existence?
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Sometimes, cleanups go beyond keeping our wild spaces beautiful, and they help bring us together. Natural Restorations, a cleanup organization based out of Arizona, has found that restoring natural spaces is bringing military veterans together to build community one cleanup at a time.
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Linda and Kathy, concerned by the large amounts of trash washing up on a beach in Texas, decided to do something about it, and what started as a small effort to clean one state’s beaches, turned into the world’s largest organized beach cleanup still coordinated each year by the Ocean Conservancy. LMC’s conservation staff sat down with Kathy and Linda to chat a bit about their founding of the International Coastal Cleanup, and learn more about how each and every one of us can make a difference.
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Imagine what would happen if everyone picked up at least one piece of litter during National CleanUp Month. I will be doing my part over the next few days to help keep our environment clean. Will you?
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Countries participating in World Cleanup Day focused on individual and socially distanced group cleanups, collecting cigarette butts, doing digital cleanups, and running sorting-recycling-composting workshops.
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When we first think of climate change and the global implications surrounding the environment, it gets overwhelming fast. It is hard to imagine that one person could make a difference at all. That sort of thinking is precisely what stops people from doing anything about it. It is what makes it so easy for us to turn a blind eye to our environmental impact every day.
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Several myths have perpetuated false narratives that could be detrimental to solving the problem if left unchecked. In this article, we debunk five common myths about plastic pollution.
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Plastics are everywhere. Their invention was intended to be an environmentally friendly solution, in reality, plastics are an environmental nightmare. Plastics are a long-lived product filling a short term need, single-use plastics are just the tip of the iceberg.
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