Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 02:20:55 +0000
Twenty-one-year-old Asma Pun enjoys meeting her friends for a drink in cafes. And as much as she prefers to slurp her drinks with a straw, environment-conscious Pun says she has always been hesitant to use plastic ones.
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 22:10:54 +0000
Equipped with fishing rods and thick gloves, a group of people peers into the water from one of the many boats that line Amsterdam’s famous canals.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:20:12 +0000
Environment organizations have received some P20-million grant to help advance efforts in reducing plastic pollution in Philippine oceans.
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Credit to Author: Jelisa Castrodale| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:32:47 +0000
The bags are printed with logos like The Colon Care Co-Op, Dr. Toew’s Wart Ointment Wholesale, or the Into the Weird Adult Video Emporium.
Read moreCredit to Author: nguno| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:32:29 +0000
Podiums at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be made from plastic waste donated by local residents or collected from the sea.
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Credit to Author: Jelisa Castrodale| Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 20:58:52 +0000
Despite more than three decades working as a chef, nothing could’ve prepared Ricardo Muñoz Zurita for what he recently found inside a fish.
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Credit to Author: Edoardo Liotta| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:28:48 +0000
Think of it as a very literal take on “green packaging”.
Read moreCredit to Author: nguno| Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 04:00:31 +0000
Unsurprisingly, nearly 82% of the trash removed during Clean Ocean Action’s beach sweeps last spring and fall was plastic.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 13:06:02 +0000
An Egyptian province on the Red Sea will impose a ban on disposable plastics, prohibiting everything from single use straws to plastic bags.
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Credit to Author: Mack Lamoureux| Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:50:49 +0000
Since the 1980s hundreds of phones featuring the likeness of our favourite Monday-hatin’ cat washed up in France and no one knew why.
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