plastic waste

Creators taking part in a TikTok trend say plastic bottles filled with plastic trash can be used to build schools, furniture and more. So should you start making ecobricks?

You just bought a house plant for your apartment. You feel great: Your place looks nicer, and you’ve contributed to one of the greenest industries in the world. Or have you? Under that beautiful Monstera plant hides a dark secret: The black plastic pot you will throw in the recycling bin after you’ve repotted the plant might not be...

Street vending, brunch, and house plants have more in common than you may think. In this episode of “Connect the Dots,” Fernando Hurtado ends up on #PlantTok, meets a street vendor selling plants, and learns about why some black plastic can’t be recycled.

If you shop at Wegmans stores in Virginia, don’t expect to have your groceries bagged in plastic.

Marine scientist and artist Ethan Estess gets packages from people all over the country with waste pulled from the oceans that he then turns into art. The goal of his work is not just to clean up garbage and create art — but to draw attention to policies creating the waste. NBCLX contributor Greg Bledsoe brings his Family Geography Project...

We already ingest about a credit card worth of plastics every day. Scientists predict by 2050, there could be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans. So what do we do? We have to cease plastic production, says Emma Priestland of the Break Free from Plastic campaign.

An intergovernmental conference has taken early steps toward drawing up an agreement to curb plastic pollution and marine litter around the world.

Dispensing everything from fish to suits, Japan’s 5 million vending machines have made the country the convenience capital of the world. But in recent years, vending machine culture has clashed with the need to reduce plastic waste. NBCLX storyteller Fernando Hurtado reports from Tokyo on the country’s efforts to battle climate change.

The band Coldplay is sponsoring a waste “Interceptor” that’s floating down the Klang River in Malaysia. The Ocean Cleanup uses these to remove plastic from the waterway.

While masks and other protective gear are crucial in the fight against COVID-19, they can have an incredibly damaging impact on the planet. The director of research at the conservation group Oceans Asia, Teale Phelps Bondaroff, joined LX News to discuss how massive numbers of face masks have been entering our oceans since the start of the pandemic.

Polystyrene is the lightweight toxic plastic that is used in surfboards, packing materials and food containers. It’s also toxic and doesn’t biodegrade. That’s where worms come in. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories talked with Ryan Harris of Earth Technologies to learn how he is using mealworms to digest polystyrene as part of his zero waste surfboard manufacturing process....