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Plastic Masks, PPEs, Biomedical Waste Choke Water Bodies In India
Covid-19 has also backfired the significant wins over plastic waste with usage of single-use plastic products like masks and gloves surging in the pandemic.
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Don't Call It A Garbage Patch: The Truth About Cleaning Up Ocean Plastics
From ghost nets to dead turtles, the founder of the Ocean Voyages Institute shares what they find hauling plastic waste out of the Pacific Ocean.
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How Covid Waste Is Affecting The Planet
The rise of single-use plastics to tackle the coronavirus is understandable, but as face masks become mandatory the decision over which type to have is becoming more important. Single use plastic is winding up in our oceans, but the pandemic is also allowing companies and governments to cover reversing on decisions and action that will help reduce our plastic waste.
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Ocean Plastics Could Triple If We Dont Act Now, Warn Experts
And they have a plan to dramatically reduce plastic pollution by 80% by 2040.
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Coronavirus Has Renewed Our Addiction To Plastic
Environmental activists are sounding the alarm as city streets become littered with masks and gloves, and single-use plastics get a new lease on life.
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Is It Really Possible To Go 'Plastic Free'? This Town Is Showing The World How.
Penzance, a coastal town in England, achieved "plastic free" accreditation in 2017, since then more than 100 other communities have done the same.
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2 Years Later, Has The Worlds Strictest Plastic Bag Ban Worked?
Kenya has harsh penalties for those caught manufacturing, selling, importing or using single-use plastics, yet the country still struggles to reduce its waste.
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All The Crazy Places Plastic Has Ended Up This Year
It's littering the bottom of the ocean and poisoning animals, plastic waste was truly everywhere in 2019.
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South Indians Are Schooling ANI For Just Discovering Banana Leaf Plates
ANI's second public misstep in a week came just before news broke that the Modi government hadshelved the plan to ban single-use plastic on Gandhi Jayanti.
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Modi Govt Shelves Plan For Ban On Single-Use Plastic As Businesses Deal With Slowdown
The plan was for PM Narendra Modi to outlaw six items on the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
By Neha Dasgupta, Reuters