Climate change plans need to account for the manufacturing of materials like steel, cement, plastic, glass, aluminum, and paper
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Arctic sea ice loaded with microplastics
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Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
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The Pacific’s plastic catastrophe
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Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned?
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Could just-add-water products save us?
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How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world
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'Desert Island Dump' A three-part study of the most polluted beach in the world.
Desert Island Dump Chapter 1: Shipwrecked Chapter 2: The Big Haul Chapter 3: "Stolen from Talley's" Here's an abriged version: Henderson Island: the Pacific paradise groaning under 18 tonnes of...
Desert Island Dump
Here's an abriged version: Henderson Island: the Pacific paradise groaning under 18 tonnes of plastic waste
And a video of the beach.
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This house was built using 600,000 recycled plastic bottles
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Experts scoff but Joost Bakker believes he can make oil from dirty plastic
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How a grocery store's plan to shame customers into using reusable bags backfired
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Sweden's government wants to look into a ban on plastic cups and food containers
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Anyone else doing Plastic-Free July? What's your main area of focus?
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New California Bill Could Revolutionize How the U.S. Tackles Plastic Pollution
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Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste
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Canada to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021
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Canadian government to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021
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Researchers in Argentina found a bee's nest made entirely from plastic
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Malaysia returning unwanted Canadian plastic
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Grocery stores are packed with plastic. Some are changing
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Timor-Leste aims to become world's first plastics-neutral country
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Inside the long war to protect plastic: Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The industry that makes it has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it on the market.
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Maine is the first state to ban styrofoam
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The rise of ‘zero-waste’ grocery stores
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The zero-waste revolution: How a new wave of shops could end excess packaging
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Are plastic bag bans garbage?
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How US recycling is changing now that China won’t take it
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India confirms scrap plastic ban will be delayed
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Climate change: Obsession with plastic pollution distracts attention from bigger environmental challenges
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Hundreds of US cities are killing or scaling back their recycling programs
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What happens now that China won't take US recycling: Many waste-management companies are simply burning recyclables or sending them to landfills
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Living plastic-free: One activist fights a rising tide of pollution
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How to solve the world’s plastics problem: Bring back the milk man
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A grand plan to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Charities spending millions cleaning up fast fashion graveyard
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Plastic water bottles, which enabled a drinks boom, now threaten a crisis
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No more of your junk
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The week in energy: Not all oil is equal
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I collected my plastic waste for a year, and learned the truth about recycling
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Single-use plastics ban approved by European Parliament
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The nurdles are coming: Wave of 1 billion plastic pellets heading to WA's south coast
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Nestle, Tim Hortons and Pepsi are the three worst plastic polluters in Canada: Greenpeace
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California bans restaurants from automatically giving out plastic straws
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Experts unsure if Ocean Cleanup is going to rid the seas of plastic
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California becomes the first state to restrict plastic straws at restaurants
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Lego wants to completely remake its toy bricks (without anyone noticing)
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Scientists get ready to begin Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleanup
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These Cultural Treasures Are Made of Plastic. Now They’re Falling Apart.
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If Vanuatu can ban single-use plastics, so can the other commonwealth countries. Op-ed by Ralph Regenvanu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vanuatu
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Here’s how many times you actually need to reuse your shopping bags
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