Waves of Change is a CBC series exploring the single-use plastic we're discarding, and why we need to clean up our act. We're there to catalog how much waste can be found at the bottom of the ocean during a 45-minute dive. Last month, Sarah-Jeanne Royer, a researcher at the University of Hawaii, showed for the first time that degrading plastic waste is a cause of greenhouse gases. Sarah-Jeanne Royer, a researcher at the University of Hawai'i, has found that degrading plastic waste is one of the causes of the greenhouse gas effect. The Canadian Plastics Industry Association recently set a goal that by 2030 all plastic packaging be recyclable or recoverable.

Source: CBC News September 24, 2018 09:00 UTC