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Sri Lanka will ban single-use plastics, the government said Tuesday, in a move that follows a series of wild elephant and deer deaths from...
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The roughly 30,000 fast-food outlets in France serve six billion meals a year, generating an estimated 180,000 tons of waste.
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Plasticrelated chemicals impact wildlife by entering niche environments and spreading through different species and food chains.
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Chemicals leaking from plastic waste make bacteria grow faster in European lakes, according to research published Tuesday that authors said could provide a natural...
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Nearly 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging are thrown away by UK households every year, and just 12 percent recycled in the UK.
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India imposed a ban on many single-use plastics on Friday in a bid to tackle waste choking rivers and poisoning wildlife.
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A major UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon this week with a flurry of...
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Annual production of fossil-fuel-based plastics are set to top 1.2 billion tonnes by 2060 and waste to exceed one billion tonnes.
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The plastic waste will then be collected and fed onto conveyors and into the storage hold.
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Researchers have succeeded in breaking down plastic into its molecular building blocks and in recovering over 90 percent of them.