The frozen Arctic Ocean contains up to 12,000 tiny pieces of plastic per litre of sea ice, according to...
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Eight months on, is the world’s most drastic plastic bag ban working?
Waterways are clearer, the food chain is less contaminated with plastic — and there are fewer “flying toilets”. A...
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Plastic straws: Call for government to rethink policy
A woman with cerebral palsy has called for the government to consider the need of disabled people before bringing...
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Plastic collection bins overflow with garbage
MUMBAI: The BMC’s ambitious plans to collect plastic seem to have gone kaput as citizens have filled the civic...
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There’s so much plastic in the ocean it just set a new record
Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research took core samples from across the...
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Companies sign up to pledge to cut plastic pollution
More than 40 companies have signed up to a pact to cut plastic pollution over the next seven years....
As Smithsonian.com reported at the time, the new bacteria could break down PET into much smaller compounds. The discovery...
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‘Besides ban, govt must focus on proper plastic waste disposal’
Nagpur: Even as they welcomed the state government’s recent ban on plastic, experts have pointed out that curbing plastic...