Plastic waste is a problem around the world. This story from EcoWatch shows how it is affecting our most iconic wildlife as well as humans: In a new study published in the Journal for Nature Conservation, titled “Plastic ingestion in Asian elephants in the forested landscapes of Uttarakhand, India,” a team of scientists […]
Regions and Countries: Plastics
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Bob Sluka of A Rocha has just published a new book through Grove addressing the problem of plastics. (We seem to be talking about plastics a lot this month – here’s a story about a possible solution in Malawi)(and about books from Grove!) Here’s the blurb on Bob’s booklet: Plastic […]
Dustin Hoffman was famously told “the future is plastics” in the 1967 film The Graduate. More than 50 years later, the Nelson Institute at the University of Wisconsin is tackling the other side of that question: Does plastic have a future? The event is a free public online lecture next […]