Plastic Pollution

On a sweltering spring day, workers at a Christmas tree factory in eastern China rhythmically assembled piles of branches, wiping away sweat as they daubed white-paint snow onto plastic pine needles.

Researchers have created a new plant-based material that could become a strong contender for a plastic replacement.

The giant blue whale structure stands at four storeys tall, and is made from plastic waste and recycled materials.

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From driftwood and bottle caps to bamboo chimes and plastic bottles what was once trash is now art, thanks to the creativity of students from a university in Pangasinan.

A large blue whale sculpture has been unveiled at London’s Canary Wharf as a reminder of the millions of tonnes of plastic waste swimming in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. New York-based architecture and design firm StudioKCA worked with the Hawaii Wildlife Fund to build the 11m (3.