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Meet the plastic-munching lake bacteria fighting pollution

Could this solve the problem of plastic pollution in lakes?

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Venice asks tourists to refill water bottles, not buy new ones

At times, tourists generate up to 40 per cent of Venice’s waste.

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Microplastics found in two thirds of meat and dairy for the first time

73 per cent of the products they tested contained microplastics - the material left behind when plastics decompose.

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‘Story doing not storytelling’: PepsiCo aims high on sustainability

Food and beverage behemoth, PepsiCo shares its ambitions for creating more sustainable packaging and products.

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'Stop suffocating your vagina': Reusable period pads launch for women

Single-use pads can take up to 500 years to degrade. This company wants to do something about it.

Climate

Can these plastic-gobbling inventions keep rubbish out of the ocean?

Millions of tonnes of plastic wind up in the ocean every year, killing plants and animals. That’s why companies around the world have developed novel devices to help reduce the ocean plastic problem.

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Dubai Reduces Reliance on Single-Use Plastics

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Dubai has stepped up its commitment towards a more sustainable future, through the launch of ‘Dubai Can’. Focus finds out how the move is reducing the city’s reliance on single-use plastic bottles.

Ecotech

Plastic waste can now be found and monitored from space

Most of our data on plastic waste comes from models and estimates but this free public tool could soon change that.

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EU reveals plans for the ‘largest ever ban’ on toxic chemicals

Chemical companies create new substances every 1.4 seconds, using loopholes to evade regulations. Can a new EU ban stop them?

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Meet the young pirates protecting the ocean from plastic pollution

‘Captain Fanplastic’ is one of the semi-finalists in the Afri-Plastics Challenge awarding environmental programmes in Africa.

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Thousands of plastic bottles litter beach following catastrophic flood

Cleanup operations were underway after deadly floods hit parts of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province at the beginning of last week.

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Hong Kong's quarantine hotels are creating mountains of plastic waste

A zero-COVID policy means everything from remotes to pillows and food has to be wrapped in plastic.

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You eat a credit card's worth of plastic every week, says a new study

Microplastics are everywhere, including in our bodies. But how can we avoid them?

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Microplastics discovered in human blood - should we be worried?

The miniscule particles have been found in 22 healthy blood donors.

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Body parts illegally shipped to Sri Lanka are returned to the UK

Illegal waste dumping reaches new lows as UK has body parts returned from Sri Lanka.

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Three in four people worldwide want single-use plastics to be banned

If the UN cannot agree on a deal to put the brakes on plastic pollution, there will be widespread ecological damage over coming decades.

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How used COVID face masks could be helping to keep you connected

The COVID pandemic is believed to be generating 7,200 tonnes of medical waste every day but this company is finding new ways to reuse it.

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Here are some of the inventive ways people are reusing COVID plastics

Old tests are being repurposed into sparkly jewellery, plant pot labels and more, but not all of our pandemic plastics are necessary.

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Chemical pollution has now passed safe planetary limit, scientists say

The rate at which we are producing chemicals has now outstripped our ability to assess and monitor their risk to the environment.

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A quarter of the soil on these Norwegian islands is plastic waste

A team of volunteers and researchers have unearthed 5.5 million litres of marine waste from the Trøndelag archipelago since 2017.