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At least 0.19 kg per person per day of Trinidad and Tobago's plastic debris end up in the ocean, or for example Saint Lucia which generates more than four times the amount of plastic waste per capita as China and is responsible for 1.2 times more improperly disposed plastic waste per capita than China. Of the top thirty global polluters per ...
Used products dumped at a scrap metal recycler. Zero waste, or waste minimization, is a set of principles focused on waste prevention that encourages redesigning resource life cycles so that all products are repurposed (i.e. "up-cycled") and/or reused.
Bye Bye Plastic Bags is a social initiative and NGO driven by youth to say no to plastic bags. Their message reached stages around the world like TED, CNN, United Nations and the sisters helped build momentum towards the ban on single use plastic bags which finally came into effect in 2018 thanks to the efforts of many like-minded organisations ...
No more “Paper or Plastic?” If you forget your reusable bag, you will have only a paper option. Senate Bill 1053 has passed the Senate 31-7, and Assembly Bill 2236 passed out of its house 51-7 ...
A growing number of countries have instituted plastic bag bans, and a ban on single-use plastic (such as throw-away forks or plates), and are looking to spread bans to all plastic packaging, plastic clothing (such as polyester and acrylic fiber, or any other form of unnecessary plastic that could be replaced with an easily biodegradeable, non ...
Recycling more plastic won't lead to producing more of it, he said. "The whole narrative that more recycling equals more plastic products is ludicrous. It's ludicrous and it's gaslighting.," Hecht ...
By using data on surface plastic concentration (pieces of plastic per km 2) from 1972 to 1985 (n=60) and 2002–2012 (n=457) within the same plastic accumulation zone, the study found the mean plastic concentration increase between the two sets of data, including a 10-fold increase of 18,160 to 189,800 pieces of plastic per km 2.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Wednesday to hear a bid by TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, to block a law intended to force the sale of the short ...