canada Grocer designed embarrassing plastic bags to shame shoppers into bringing reusable ones Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets The GOpure Pod Water Purifier is a whole new way to drink safe, clean water every time Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets Save the planet one sip at a time with this reusable straw Boing Boing's Shop

china China announces ban of single-use plastic bags and straws Cory Doctorow

zero waste Coffee chain ditching cups in 2020, customers must "rent" or bring their own Rusty Blazenhoff

makers Young woman invents ingenious bioplastic made from fish scales and red algae David Pescovitz

videos Straws are a distraction: how the plastics industry successfully got you to blame yourself for pollution Cory Doctorow

Environment Nepal is banning single-use plastic on and around Mt. Everest David Pescovitz

death Woman killed by metal drinking straw Seamus Bellamy

Environment Plastic bag and other human trash found at the bottom of Earth's deepest ocean trench David Pescovitz

Business Helium shortage deflating Party City's business David Pescovitz

Environment Organic cotton shopping bags have to be used 20,000 times before they're better for the Earth than plastic disposables Cory Doctorow

dictionary 'Single-use' edges out 'VAR,' 'floss,' 'gammon,' and 'plogging' as this dictionary's word of the year Rusty Blazenhoff

Science Microplastics found in human poop David Pescovitz

books Coffee lids: new book on the elegant design of a modern scourge Andrea James

Environment National Geographic's plastics issue is a huge wake-up call Andrea James

Environment UK's indie music fests vow to end plastic bottles and straws at events Andrea James

plastics The world's first reusable tampon applicator Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets Touring, complete: what gear survived four months of hard-wearing book-tour? Cory Doctorow

delighful creatures This worm eats plastic bags Mark Frauenfelder