“This is a piece of the artificial lawn that is put in gardens in Japan. There's always a lot of this lying around." Naomi Arimoto searches beaches like this for small pieces of plastic waste which ...

We first saw someone turn a plastic bottle into plastic ribbon about four years ago. Since then, we’ve wondered what this abundant, sturdy material could be used for besides just tying things together ...

As global leaders take the problem of plastic pollution into their hands, Japanese manicurist Naomi Arimoto is putting it into her fingernails. At the beach near her home in Kanagawa Prefecture, ...

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CHIGASAKI, Japan (Reuters) - Before global leaders take the problem of plastic pollution into their hands this month, Japanese manicurist Naomi Arimoto is putting it into her fingernails. At the beach ...

Arimoto opened a nail salon in her home in 2018 after a spinal condition forced her to give up her career as a social worker, and she's been using Umigomi, or 'sea trash,' to make nail art since 2021 ...