Days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau evaded a question at a Commonwealth summit of whether Canada would consider a plastic straw ban, many Edmonton restaurants are adding their voices and support for the growing movement.

The danger of plastics in our ocean is a growing threat, and now a new study has estimated that by 2050, 99 per cent of seabirds will have consumed some sort of plastics from our oceans.

A new study has concluded that 8 million metric tons of plastic made its way to our oceans in 2010, but the lead author of another study says that number is way off.