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Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life
Plastic has become embedded in everyday life. That’s because for the last 70 years, the plastics industry convinced consumers to embrace the material for its low cost and disposability.
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Yet Another Problem With Recycling: It Spews Microplastics
Recycling was already a mess. Now a study finds that one facility may emit 3 million pounds of microplastics a year.
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Plastic pollution in oceans has reached 'unprecedented' levels in 15 years
Plastic pollution in the world's oceans has reached "unprecedented levels" over the past 15 years, a new study has found, calling for a legally binding international treaty to stop the harmful waste.
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The invisible ocean crisis of toxic chemicals used in plastics
Around 8 million tons of plastics enter the oceans every year. Beyond the visible litter lurks a growing invisible crisis of toxic chemicals, and studies show that these chemicals are spreading into every nook and cranny of our oceans, food and bodies.
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Turning food waste into biodegradable bioplastics
The outcome of this three-year project will be a process that delivers marketable bioplastic products made from food waste. The reusability of food waste for bio-based plastic production could help reduce landfill quantity and waste management costs, offset petroleum-based plastic production and pollution, and minimize greenhouse gas emissions.
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Why Plastic Pollution Is a Producer Responsibility
We won’t be able to stem the tide of plastic waste until manufacturers are held accountable for their products.
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Plastic recycling a "failed concept," study says, with only 5% recycled in U.S. last year as production rises
Greenpeace USA blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction."
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How Coca-Cola, Unilever, and Others Delay Action on Plastic
When a huge plastic producer like Coca-Cola says it’s working to solve the plastic crisis, what does that really look like? An investigation published Friday by Bloomberg documents how one initiative in Ghana was used by some of the world’s biggest plastic producers to battle against threats of plastic bans, while failing to deliver on some of its key promises.
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Canada To Ban Production, Import Of Single-Use Plastics Starting In December
Canada announced Monday it will ban the production and import of “harmful single-use plastics” starting in December in an effort to curb plastic waste and pollution. The new guidance bans plastic checkout bags, cutlery, food containers, ring carriers, stir sticks and straws, with few exceptions.
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A novel plastic-eating enzyme may solve our plastic woes once and for all
Plastic pollution is everywhere. It's showing up as microplastics that contaminate nearly everything and even in the stomachs of dead whales. This is because a lot of plastic is simply not biodegradable and has a very long lifespan.
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California subpoenas ExxonMobil in probe of plastics waste
California’s attorney general on Thursday subpoenaed ExxonMobil as part of what he called a first-of-its-kind broader investigation into the petroleum industry for its alleged role in causing a global plastic pollution crisis, allegations that the company called meritless.
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Visible ocean plastics just the tip of the iceberg
While the billions of tons of plastic products produced in the "Plastic Age" of the last half-century have drastically changed the way we live for the better, the plastic waste that has made it into the environment is posing new challenges for nature.
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Can AI-powered robots solve the smartphone e-waste crisis?
Researchers are going to find out.
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Amazon's plastic packaging waste could encircle the globe 500 times
The plastic packaging of the products we buy online is actually hiding a major environmental problem, a new report showed. Amazon, considered the world’s largest retailer, was responsible for 211,000 metric tons (465 million pounds) of plastic packaging waste last year, 10,000 tons (22 million pounds) of which ended up in the world’s freshwater and marine ecosystems.
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Amazon disputes study claiming it caused 29 per cent spike in ocean plastic
'A delivery van's worth of plastic dumped into major rivers, lakes and oceans every 67 minutes'
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‘Deluge of plastic waste’: US is world’s biggest plastic polluter
The US is the world’s biggest culprit in generating plastic waste and the country urgently needs a new strategy to curb the vast amount of plastic that ends up in the oceans, a new report submitted to the federal government has found.
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How Much E-waste are We Making?
A group of researchers across the UNU, UNITAR, ITU, and ISWA[0] recently released The Global E-waste Monitor 2020 report, giving us an up to date look at just how much electronic waste we’re generating around the world. The numbers are worrying. We’ve gone from 44.4 million metric tons per year in 2014 to 53.6 million metric tons in 2019.
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Revealed: Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in UK every year
Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, ITV News investigation finds
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Plastic waste can now be turned into jet fuel in one hour
Scientists have found a new way to convert the worlds most popular plastic, polyethylene, into jet fuel and other liquid hydrocarbon products, introducing a new process that is more energy-efficient than existing methods and takes about an hour to complete.
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EU bans plastic waste from being shipped to developing countries
The European Union has banned all non-recyclable plastic waste being shipped to developing nations from 1 January. The large quantity of plastic sent to the Global South is often not being properly treated. A lot of this waste ends up either in landfill, the ocean, or being incinerated because these countries often don’t have the capacity to sustainably treat the waste.
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