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Environment USARecord Amount of Plastic Recovered from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
An American non-profit organization completed its 48-day expedition and was able to collect a record 130 tons of fishing nets and toxic plastic debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, completing the “largest open ocean clean-up in history”.
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Environment CanadaOnly Two and a Half Months to Go, and Single-Use Plastic Is History in Canada
Following a report that clearly states that plastic pollution is harmful to the environment, the government of Canada has issued a national ban on single-use plastic as soon as 2021 under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
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Technology
Technology USAOut With Plastic, in With Methane-Eating Microbes
Newlight, an American biotech company based in Huntington Beach, California, created Air Carbon, a new material made from methane - a potent greenhouse gas - that can potentially resolve two problems at once: climate change and ocean plastic.
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Environment Denmark“Please Change Your Plastic Packaging” Children Pled to Giant Toy Maker (and They Did!)
Following letters from children concerned about the use of single-use plastic bags to wrap the bricks, the toy company LEGO has decided to change their packaging to recyclable paper bags made with Forest Stewardship Council-certified paper.
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