KKimTap Water Testing your tap water for contamination is way easier than you thinkPopular Science - Kendra Pierre-LouisDo you trust that your drinking water is safe? Recent surveys suggest that nearly half of Americans are unsure. In the wake of environmental tragedies like the Flint water crisis, it's not shocking that
KKimPlastic How you're recycling plastic wrong, from coffee cups to toothpasteThe Guardian - Charlotte SimmondsIt’s a familiar scene: you stand at the bin, trash in hand, and wonder: “Can I recycle this?” We tend to throw it in the recycling bin anyway, in the hope that some unknown person, somewhere else, will
KKimProtein These Protein Picker-Uppers Keep Your Cells Clean and HealthyWIRED - Megan Molteni This story is part of a series on how we clean—from organizing your house to washing your tuchus. Of all the existential intergalactic threats ever …
KKimBeauty What Is Eyebrow Pinching? This New Technique Will Help More Than Just Your BrowsBustle - Rebecca Fearn If you're constantly in pursuit of perfect brows, I feel ya. I actually tend to keep my brow treatments to a minimum as I don't like to mess with …
KKimPlastic Where does your plastic go? Global investigation reveals America's dirty secretGuardian US - Erin McCormick, Bennett Murray , Carmela Fonbuena , Leonie Kijewski, Gökçe Saraçoğlu , Jamie Fullerton, Alastair Gee and Charlotte SimmondsWhat happens to your plastic after you drop it in a recycling bin? According to promotional materials from America’s plastics industry, it is whisked off to a factory where it is seamlessly transformed
KKimPlastic What scientists are doing to try to create plastic alternativesAxios - Alison Snyder Plastics are intertwined with our lives today — driving researchers to create plant-based versions and more efficient ways to recycle. The big …
KKimMicroplastics The troubling places plastics have been foundAxios - Jessie Li The ubiquity of plastics has led some researchers to dub this era the Plastic Age. From macro to micro, plastics are slowly permeating our bodies, …
KKimQueensland 'Startling' KFC discovery off Queensland beach by clean-up diversyahoo.com - Nadine Carroll When Kentucky Fried Chicken opened its first Australian location in Sydney in 1968, a piece of chicken and a serving of chips would set you back 45 …
KKimPlastic People eat at least 50,000 plastic particles a year, study findsThe Guardian - Damian Carrington Environment editorThe average person eats at least 50,000 particles of microplastic a year and breathes in a similar quantity, according to the first study to estimate human ingestion of plastic pollution. The true number
KKimPlay buttonMicroplastics The Feminist, Anti-Colonialist Scientific Approach to Micro-plastics and PollutionThe Atlantic - Emily BuderThe documentary filmmaker Noah Hutton was at a scientific symposium when he first encountered Max Liboiron. “I kept hearing some of the sharpest, smartest critiques of [scientific] status-quo assumptions
KKimPlastic We're Eating a Whole Lot of Plastic... Uh, Is That Bad?Gizmodo - Ed Cara If you’re the type to get squeamish about the things you accidentally eat, you’re not going to like the new report released by the WWF (formerly …
KKimPlastic Canada’s mounting plastic problem needs a co-ordinated government fixThe Globe and Mail - Usman ValianteUsman Valiante is a senior policy analyst with Cardwell Grove Inc. He is the author of the Smart Prosperity Institute’s A Vision for a Circular Economy for Plastics in Canada: The Benefits of Plastics
KKimPlastic Countdown will offer paper bags as ban on plastic takes holdstuff.co.nz - Debrin Foxcroft Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage discusses plans to widen the ban on single-use plastic bags. (Video first published in December …
KKimOregon Legislative Assembly Oregon lawmakers vote to ban single-use plastic bagskgw.com - Author: Sarah Zimmerman, Associated Press SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Senate voted Tuesday to prohibit single-use plastic shopping bags, joining a growing movement to reduce plastic pollution in …
KKimPlastic You may be eating a credit card's worth of plastic each week: studyReuters - Reuters EditorialFILE PHOTO: A plastic bottle is seen floating in an Adriatic sea of the island Mljet, Croatia, May 30, 2018. Picture taken May 30, 2018. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic/File Photo GENEVA (Reuters) - Plastic pollution
KKimPlay buttonBahamas Carnival Cruise To Pay $20 Million After Admitting To Dumping Plastic Waste In The BahamasForbes - Trevor NaceIn a long history of plastic waste and oil dumping, Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise company in the world, admitted its subsidiary dumped plastic overboard in the Bahamas. The subsidiary, Princess
KKimWellness Buying This Type Of Toilet Paper Could Help Save Thousands Of Treesmindbodygreen.com - By Stephanie Eckelkamp When you think about how you can take steps to lighten your environmental impact, you might consider things like declining plastic straws, composting …
KKimPlay buttonPlastic Nigerian Parents Are Paying Their Kids' School Fees by Picking Up Plasticglobalcitizen.org - Joe McCarthy Why Global Citizen Should CareMore than 262 million kids around the world are unable to go to school, sometimes because school fees are too …
KKimEnvironment Olay becomes first major skincare brand to trial refillable packsThe Guardian - Rebecca SmithersOlay has become the first major global skincare brand to test refillable packaging in an attempt to reduce plastic waste. The brand, owned by the consumer goods company Procter & Gamble, will sell each
KKimWelsh Government Welsh Government needs 10-year plan to battle plastic pollution: reportsouthwalesargus.co.uk - Ian Craig INTRODUCING a deposit return scheme on plastic packaging and a new tax on producers using non-recycled material are among measures the Welsh …
KKimSainsbury's Sainsbury’s is trialling a brand new scheme that will pay you to recyclewomanandhome.com - Amy Hunt We all want to do our bit to help the environment, but it can sometimes be tricky to get organised. But now, Sainsbury’s is aiming to make recycling …
KKimOceans Monwabisi Beach cleanup stress value of oxygen produced by the ocean | Cape Argusiol.co.za - Sukaina Ishmail Cape Town - The ocean produces up to 70% of the oxygen humans breathe and is a major food source for us, according to research. In commemoration of …
KKimPlasticStartling photo reveals the 15,774 pieces of single-use plastic found in just 22 houses on a single STREET as TV experimentdailymail.co.uk - Stephanie Linning This shocking photo reveals the amount of single-use plastic found in just 22 houses on a single British street. Residents in east Bristol were tasked …
KKimMontana Politics Supreme Court Will Consider Limiting Pollution Cleanup SuitsBloomberg - Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to use a Montana case involving a BP Plc unit to consider shielding companies from environmental cleanup lawsuits that …
KKimPlastic War On Plastic: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Says Ditching Bottled Water Is A 'No-Brainer'HuffPost UK - By Sara Spary But it's not all down to shoppers – supermarkets need to step up, too. Our supermarkets are full of single-use plastic: fresh but wrapped fruit and …
KKimPlay buttonPlastic This all-women sailing crew is working to eliminate plastic in the oceantheweek.com Emily Penn and her eXXpedition crew are fighting for cleaner oceans, free of plastic and other debris. Penn is the co-founder of eXXpedition, an …
KKimPlastic Government to ban single-use plastics by 2021cbc.ca - Hannah Thibedeau The Trudeau government will ban single-use plastics by 2021, CBC News has learned from a government source. Plastic straws, cotton buds, drink …
KKimTel Aviv Tel Aviv Ranks Third in Mediterranean in Amount of Plastic Waste Washing Ashorehaaretz.com - Zafrir Rinat Tel Aviv is the Mediterranean city with the third-highest amount of plastic waste washing up on its shores, coming up behind the beaches of the …
KKimAldi Aldi to scrap plastic bags at ALL stores in favour of American-style paper onesmirror.co.uk - Emma Munbodh The grocer will trial new compostable bags and paper carriers - with plans to make the most popular one permanent Aldi has announced plans to scrap …
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