February 19, 2021 – Malibu, California – Plastic Oceans International (POI) announces the addition of Tras La Perla – a nonprofit organization founded by Colombian music star Carlos Vives – to its BlueCommunities initiative.
The cenotes of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula are iconic natural formations, but as is the case far too often, even with our natural wonders, they are not immune to human impact.
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Valentine’s Day comes from a long tradition that goes back hundreds of years. Sadly, now it’s become the reflection of a consumerist society. It may be classified as a favorite day of many and one of the most celebrated, but what are we celebrating?
Plastic is a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives. As we work to reduce our single-use consumption and increase our recycling, there are numerous products that contain plastic without us realizing it. Hidden plastics, if you will. Once you know which ones those are, it becomes easier to avoid them and find an alternative for them.
Let’s be honest: periods can be a real monthly hassle … including the menstruation products associated to them.
What’s more, for many of us, the regular complexities associated with menstruation are multiplied by personal guilt that the entire industry is seemingly inextricably linked with plastics: wrappings, applicators, strings, and pads lined with, dare I say, more plastic.
Fast food giant McDonald’s recently announced that they will be eliminating all PFAS substances from their packaging by 2025. The change has come as a result of the efforts from a number of chemical safety petitioners and NGOs, including Safe Chemicals Healthy Families and their ‘Mind the Store’ campaign.
We have a brand new webpage that has just been launched! This is very exciting for our young team here in Europe. As a branch of Plastic Oceans International, we felt it was important to give a little more insight into who we are and what we do.
The need to understand the environment from a multidisciplinary approach has always been accepted by academics. However, how we approach environmental education within society is very different. Society views the environment as a separate system or category to our human-made system. As a result, when we try to solve problems, we usually create new problems. While we do not intend to cause problems, our focus on solving a problem without the understanding of how our system interacts with the environmental system, has, and always will, create other problems. We need to take a multidisciplinary approach.
For this international day of environmental education our team at Plastic Oceans Chile invited experts to give their vision on this important subject. In this occasion Natalia Fuentes Cabrera, Manager of the “Ecologearte” Environmental Education Program (@ecologearte), of the Isidora Zegers de Huneeus Educational Foundation (link), tells us about her experience with environmental education and the reality that she sees daily at the school where works.
Nestled away in Mexico’s tropical southeast sits the quiet community of Campeche, hugging the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico. Although unassuming, this enclave of historic colonial charm offers far more than the eye can see at first glance.