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How a global plastic treaty could cut down pollution – if the world can agree one
Pol Sole/Shutterstock The “Paris agreement for plastic” was set to be finalised at the end of this week. But after a week and a half…
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From soil to slugs to songbirds – how plastic is moving through ecosystems
Philippe Clement / shutterstock For many people, “plastic pollution” calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic bottles and…
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We dropped over 8,000 pieces of litter into a fake river to fight plastic pollution
Plastic pollution can have devastating effects on rivers. Maksim Safaniuk/Shutterstock Nobody really knows how much plastic is in the world’s rivers or where it accumulates.…
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Plastic is climate change in a bottle – so let’s put a cap on it
Hedgehog94/Shutterstock Plastic pollution and climate change have common culprits – and similar solutions. The penultimate round of negotiations for a global pact on plastic ended…
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