In just over 20 years the story of microplastics has gone from something newly described in 2004 to the dire reality of being overwhelmingly present in what we eat, drink, wear and inhale. And with it has come devastating consequences for human and animal health. Dr...
Plastic is in our clothes, cars, mobile phones, water bottles and food containers. But recent research adds to growing concerns about the impact of tiny plastic fragments on our health. A study from the United States has, for the first time, found microplastics in...
Plastic pollution is one of the greatest polycrises of our time. Since its invention in the late 1800s, plastic has slowly become ubiquitous in our lives – in our homes, streets, and oceans – to such an extent that plastic is, quite literally, everywhere. Drawing...
Since 2006, a group of women and girls from Kilifi County in Kenya have collected washed-up flip-flops along the Indian Ocean weekly. The collected trash is then transported to a workshop in the capital city, Nairobi, where artists and wood sculptors carve out various...
Faced with the complex environmental and social problems created by plastic, a group of creative thinkers, conservationists and artists gathered for a workshop in a Langa studio on a cold winter’s Saturday morning. The group was tasked with creating functional art and...
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