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9:30

Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez

The problem with plastics — and how they're changing the environment

Posted Aug 2022

5:36

Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet

Meet the microbes that could eat your trash

Posted Jul 2022

4:31

Luka Seamus Wright and Imogen Ellen Napper

Which bag should you use?

Posted Nov 2020

7:17

Alejandro Durán

How I use art to tackle plastic pollution in our oceans

Posted Dec 2019

9:36

Mani Vajipey

How India's local recyclers could solve plastic pollution

Posted Nov 2019

14:46

Andrew Forrest

A radical plan to end plastic waste

Posted Oct 2019

7:01

Haaziq Kazi

A 13-year-old's plan for removing plastic from the oceans

Posted Sep 2019

9:13

Morgan Vague

These bacteria eat plastic

Posted May 2019

10:34

Andrew Dent

To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift

Posted Apr 2018

11:53

David Katz

The surprising solution to ocean plastic

Posted Jan 2018

19:05

Natalie Fee

Plastic pollution, our toilets and us

Posted Dec 2017

6:58

Paul Tasner

How I became an entrepreneur at 66

Posted Oct 2017

6:10

Jeff Kirschner

This app makes it fun to pick up litter

Posted Feb 2017

11:00

Melati and Isabel Wijsen

Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali

Posted Jan 2016

3:52

Emma Bryce

What really happens to the plastic you throw away?

Posted Apr 2015

17:48

Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer

The toxic baby

Posted Feb 2012

10:58

Mike Biddle

We can recycle plastic

Posted Oct 2011

12:49

Van Jones

The economic injustice of plastic

Posted Jan 2011

5:18

Dianna Cohen

Tough truths about plastic pollution

Posted Oct 2010

9:05

Eben Bayer

Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Posted Oct 2010

7:20

Charles Moore

Seas of plastic

Posted Feb 2009

11:14

Chris Jordan

Turning powerful stats into art

Posted Jun 2008

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