Sweden abolishes tax on plastic bags despite warnings usage could rise – centre-right coalition government says consumption already below EU target
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‘Paper or plastic?’ will no longer be a choice at California grocery stores
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Comprehensive bipartisan plastics recycling bill tackles plastics pollution in US
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Houston's plastic waste, waiting more than a year for "advanced" recycling, piles up at a business failed three times by fire marshal
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Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste overseas?
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How 3M covered up "forever chemicals"
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Joe Biden administration commits $6B to cut US emissions from high-carbon industries
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Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
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Plant-based spread maker tries move into paper-based tubs
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Site Zero recycling plant in the city of Motala should double the amount of plastic packaging being recycled in Sweden
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'License to hide': Western plastic waste dumped in Myanmar
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Microplastics in the mud – Finnish lake sediments help us get to the bottom of plastic pollution
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Road hazard: Evidence mounts on toxic pollution from tires
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Sweden's right-wing government says it will turn its back on plastic bag tax from November 2024
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Paper cups are just as toxic as plastic cups
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Could you, please, write down a monthly grocery list (and instructions if needed) to buy in a supermarket without carrying any plastic back home? Please, state your region/country/city.
I have tried that in New England and I have been unable to do so.
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Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris
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A charge on supermarket single-use plastic bags has led to 98% drop in use in England since 2015
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Plastic overshoot day spotlights growing 'climate nightmare' of global waste
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Danish environmental campaigner Merijn Tinga has windsurfed up the Thames to return plastic bottles from the UK which he found in Sweden
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The issues with reusable straws
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Plastics have shaped nearly every aspect of society. Now what?
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Patagonia helps Samsung redesign washing machines to help reduce microfiber pollution
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How plastics are poisoning us
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Meet Kelpy, the deep tech startup swapping single-use plastics for seaweed
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Australian governments impose recycling rules after the packaging industry fails on waste
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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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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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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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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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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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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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