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Topic: plastic pollution

A worker loads plastic material onto a conveyer belt at ExxonMobil's chemical recycling plant on October 11, 2023, in Baytown, Texas. (SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images)

ExxonMobil lying about recycling?

Matthew Rozsa
Spectacular macro-invertebrate Red-lined Sea Cucumber Thelenota rubralineata in the shallow water near Moyo Island, Sumbawa, Indonesia. (Getty Images/ifish)

Sea cucumbers are a godsend for oceans

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic Pollution in the Ocean (Getty Images/Yunaidi Joepoet)

Scientists report plastic-eating fungus

Rae Hodge
Greenwashing (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is Earth Day obsolete greenwashing?

Matthew Rozsa
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Girl organizing recycling bins (Getty Images/Jacobs Stock Photography Ltd)

Is there any point to recycling?

Matthew Rozsa
Assortment of used at-home pregnancy tests (Getty Images/Catherine McQueen)

Our fertility crisis drives inequality

Matthew Rozsa
Many waste plastics were seen on the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on August 27, 2023. As the United Nations Environment Programme said, every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. (Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Plastic pollution turns off animals

Matthew Rozsa
Biodegradable trash paper and plastic spread out (Getty Images/Tatiana Maksimova)

Can bioplastics fix our plastic problem?

Matthew Rozsa
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Farmer spraying pesticide on field (Getty Image/Toa55)

Pesticides are reducing sperm counts

Matthew Rozsa
Storm Cloud Over A Farm (Getty Images/sakchai vongsasiripat)

Microplastics are in the clouds

Matthew Rozsa
Lost fishing gear lies underwater on the seabed (Getty Images/Andriy Nekrasov)

Could plastic pollution be not that bad?

Matthew Rozsa
Consuming Credit Cards (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How much plastic are we actually eating?

Matthew Rozsa
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Engineer at recycling center (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

Plastic causing "ecological disruption"

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic bag drifting in the botnia Gulf on May 3, 2023 near Pietarsaari, during the late spring as the sea-ice is slowly melting. (OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Hope for the plastic pollution crisis

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic pollution in the ocean (Getty Images)

Plastic-eating microbes found in Alps

Matthew Rozsa
Fish and plastic (Getty Images/Sergi Escribano)

Plastic pollution is filtering into fish

Matthew Rozsa
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Palau Malakal Island and Koror (Getty Images/Norimoto)

Microplastic pollution knows no bounds

Matthew Rozsa
A grey seal with a plastic frisbee stuck around its neck amongst the colony on the beach at Horsey in Norfolk, as RSPCA data show the number of animals affected by plastic litter is at an all-time high, with incidents increasing by 22% in just four years. (Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)

Seals are dying from plastic pollution

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic-degrading bacteria Ideonella sakaiensis, 3D illustration (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

The bacteria that eat plastic waste

Matthew Rozsa
Lowering Sperm Count (Getty Images/filo)

Plastic is causing an infertility crisis

Matthew Rozsa
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Close up of red plastic granules (Getty Images/LukaSvetic)

There's probably plastic in your blood

Matthew Rozsa
Close up side shot of microplastics lay on a person's hand (Getty Images/pcess609)

The plastic chemical in your blood

Matthew Rozsa
Earth in a trash bag (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

29 years to save the ocean from plastic

Matthew Rozsa
Microplastic in spoon (Getty Images/Olena Sakhnenko)

Microplastics: An explainer

Matthew Rozsa
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