Positive Future #740 (Feature photo – Waxworms – By Sam Droege – https://www.flickr.com/photos/54563451@N08/19051745004/ , Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41690212) BrightVibes brings us the story of Waxworms – plastic eating caterpillars. It was discovered that the bacteria in the gut of the waxworms are able to break down the plastics. While the world is far from having enough…
Positive Future #707 (Feature photo – Plastic Shopping Bags – CCA SA 4.0 International, Peteruetz) BrightVibes brings us the story of how on March 1st, the State of New York is banning the use of most plastic bags. This is no small feat, for a state of almost 20 million people. New York is ranked…
Positive Future #645 (Feature photo – Wood Toys – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Meronim) The small town of Washington in England is in a metro center of about 300,000. In this small town, history has been made over the past two years. Emily Padgett turned a preschool nursery into a plastic free environment…
Positive Future #571 (Feature photo – Plastic Pollution – Muntaka Chasant CCA SA 4.0 Universal) Ireland, a small nation of some 6.6 million people is the latest country to embark on the banning of all single-use plastics and picking up the pace of recycling. This effort is but a continuing movement around the world. The…
Positive Future #569 (Feature photo – the Great Seal of India – Public Domain) BrightVibes news portal brings the story on how India is set to ban 6 single use plastics starting October 2, 2019. No small feat for a nation of almost 1.4 billion people (the U.S. has 327 million people) to ban the…
Positive Future #427 (Feature photo – Plastic Straws – CCA SA 2.0 Generic) People are slowly coming to realize the dangers of micro-plastics in their bodies, not to mention that 85% of ocean pollution is from plastics. In a bold move, the European Union is banning 10 types of single-use plastic items most commonly found…
