It seems almost impossible to escape plastic in our everyday lives – it’s in everything from our cell phones to our cars and the containers we purchase our food in. But now it’s nearly impossible to escape plastic pollution too. Plastic pollution
Last week I had the opportunity to attend a unique event at the Royal Ontario Museum called “Canada’s Oceans: Towards 2020”. This event was in light of Canada’s newly announced marine targets and aimed to bring together leading oceans scientists, storytellers,
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Today I wanted to shift from my typical blog posts to something a bit more impactful, that I think visual learners especially, will enjoy. I’m going to be sharing ten images that tell
Today’s post is going to a be a little bit different. With the Thanksgiving long weekend just past here in Canada, I found myself with some very rare free time on my hands and decided to actually sit back and
Plastic is a modern material, used in many aspects of daily life and therefore a big part of the waste stream. It's not easy to imagine the plastic straw used to sip a Coca-Cola in a movie theatre becoming an
The proliferation of plastic products in the last 70 years or so has been extraordinary; quite simply we cannot live without them. We are now producing nearly 300 million tons of plastic annually and nearly 8 million tons of that