Fast Retailing Co., the operator of the Uniqlo casual apparel chain, says it will produce clothes made from used plastic bottles in cooperation with Toray Industries Inc. The fashion retailer will put the items on sale in next year's spring-summer season, mainly targeting eco-conscious consumers, ...
Lilly, Thailand's Greta Thunberg, wages war on plastic waste blighting her homeland
Skipping school to glide through a dirty Bangkok canal on a paddleboard, Lilly fishes out garbage in her mission to clean up Thailand, where the average person uses eight plastic bags every single day. "I am a kid at war," the bubbly 12-year-old says after ...
New Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi vows Japan will take lead role on plastic waste
Koizumi said he wants to make Japan a leader in environmental issues and speak with Fukushima’s fishermen about what to do with Tepco’s radiation-tainted water.
Pope to leaders: Show 'political will' to take drastic action now on climate change
Pope Francis is challenging governments to show the "political will" to take drastic steps to deal with climate change during an upcoming U.N. summit while encouraging people to abandon dependence on fossil fuels. Francis issued the fervent appeal in a message Sunday to mark the ...
Inventor Boyan Slat's mission: Shrink Great Pacific Garbage patch 90% by 2040
Boyan Slat, 25, is an ambitious social entrepreneur. His goal: Reduce 90 percent of an estimated 80 million kg of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean, covering an area more than three times the size of France, by 2040. And do it with a ...
Japan's Environment Ministry plans to boost ocean cleanup budget in bid to tackle plastic waste
The Environment Ministry plans to substantially increase its budget for reducing plastic waste in the ocean in fiscal 2020, in line with an action plan adopted by relevant Cabinet ministers in May, informed sources said Thursday. The ministry provides subsidies to cover 70 percent to ...
British supermarkets are starting to go "nude." Bowing to pressure from environmentally conscious consumers, big brand shops have begun taking steps to strip their shelves of plastic wrapping over concerns about saving the oceans from waste. "Nude zones" and "Food in the Nude" campaigns are already ...
Don't worry about drinking microplastics in water for now, but more study needed, WHO says
The World Health Organization says the levels of microplastics in drinking water don't appear to be risky, but that research has been spotty and more is needed into their effects on the environment and health. Microplastics are created when man-made materials break down into tiny ...
South Korea to tighten radiation checks on waste plastics, tires and batteries from Japan
The move was taken to “secure the health and safety of the people as well as preservation of the environment,” a spokesman for the Korean Environment Ministry says.
Tiny pieces of plastic have been found in ice cores drilled in the Arctic by a U.S.-led team of scientists, underscoring the threat the growing form of pollution now poses to marine life in even the remotest waters on the planet. The researchers used a ...
Mexico's prickly pear cactus, which is emblazoned on its flag, could soon play a new and innovative role in the production of biodegradable plastics. A packaging material made from the plant has been developed by a Mexican researcher and is offering a promising solution to ...
San Francisco International Airport is banning the sale of single-use plastic bottles and will require fliers to buy refillable bottles if they are not already carrying their own, U.S. media reported on Friday. The new rule comes into effect on August 20, the San Francisco ...
