Plastics

In part two of a two-part series this week, experts weigh in on the topics of climate change, marine debris, plastic waste, medical waste, association milestones and 2019 predictions.

A Fast Company report looks at some of the most “exciting” corporate sustainability moves from 2018.

The TOYCYCLE app aims to simplify toy sharing in order to help reduce landfill toy waste.

A 60-foot section of the device developed to collect plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean has broken off. Now, it will be towed back to port for repairs.

Since 2017, Julie Sondecker has completed 500 trash hikes and has collected about 2,500 pounds of litter.

On New Year’s Eve, China will tighten its current ban on solid waste imports and will stop buying industrial metal, plastic and glass scrap, CGTN America notes.

About 90.5 percent of all the plastic waste ever produced is the equivalent of 7.2 trillion grocery bags full of plastic, Business Insider notes.