The little-known unintended consequence of recycling plastics
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'Plasticosis': A new disease caused by plastic that is affecting seabirds
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How flip-flop art helps clean Kenya's beaches | World Wide Waste
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Kayaking the sickest urban river in Australia
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Many in India make a living off garbage, from ragpickers to entrepreneurs. Join us as we look at how they turn trash into shoes, tiles, teddy bears, and more | World Wide Waste
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Single-use plastic waste is getting phased out in California under a sweeping new law
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India bans single-use plastic to combat pollution
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How people live off a garbage mountain that keeps catching on fire | World Wide Waste
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Nurdles: The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of
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Scientists discover a new method to break down plastics in less time
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From high-protein food to plastics and fuel, Swedish scientists are attempting to tap seaweed's huge potential
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A plastic bag’s 2,000-mile journey shows the messy truth about recycling
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How bad is plastic?
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Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure
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Perranporth Beach, in Cornwall, is famed for being the "Lego beach". The truth is more complicated.
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Turning plastic gloves into grape soda
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Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta
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The uneasy afterlife of our dazzling trash: Where do CDs go to die?
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Recycling was a marketing tool used to sell more plastic
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How Big Oil misled the public into believing plastic would be recycled
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Untitled Goose Game ditches plastic for its eco-friendly game cases
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Germany bans range of single-use plastics including straws and cotton buds
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Plastic rain: More than 1,000 tons of microplastic rain onto western US every year, study estimates
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'More masks than jellyfish': Coronavirus waste ends up in ocean
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Where’s airborne plastic? Everywhere, scientists find
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Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated - study: Particles may outnumber zooplankton, which underpin marine life and regulate climate
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Just around the corner: Sustainability developments to give you hope
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Scientists isolate bacterial enzyme that rapidly breaks down plastic polymers into recyclable components
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The right is using COVID-19 to wage war on reusable grocery bags
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'Huge revolution coming': Ditching plastic wrap for compostable wrap
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Planet plastic - How big oil and big soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades
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Helsinki has donated €50,000 towards Baltic Sea protection, for use in the new Baltic Sea Challenge campaign to help prevent plastic waste
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A journalist in Japan looks at how much single-use plastic he accumulates in a week, then attempts to spend a week without using any
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Welcome to Hawaii's 'plastic beach', one of the world's dirtiest places
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Sweden will become the first market where all Coca-Cola products are sold in fully recycled plastic bottles
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Plastic waste from America, collected for recycling, is shipped to Indonesia. Some is burned as fuel by tofu makers, producing deadly chemicals and contaminating food.
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California is banning the tiny bottles of shampoo in hotels
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The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic
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Where to report birds tangled in plastic rubbish
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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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Plastics or people? At least one of them has to change to clean up our mess
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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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