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Environment AustraliaNo Time to Waste… and No Plastic Either
By the end of June, an Australian chain of supermarkets will no longer use soft-plastic shopping bags in its stores, providing its clients with eco-friendlier bags and making its part to reduce the quantity of harmful plastic from ending up in landfills.
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Environment FranceOh, to Be Swimming in the Seine Once Again!
Part of its winning bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris, the capital of France, promised to make the once heavily polluted Seine fit for swimming for the first time in a century, and it looks like that promise will be delivered on time.
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Environment IndiaRiver Resurrection: a Magnificent Success
Five years of combined efforts has brought back to life the Kuttamperoor River in Kerala, India, with local community members being among the first to act: today, animals and humans alike can once more reap the benefits of a well-orchestrated river resurrection.
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Technology
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Environment AustraliaPotatoes Not Wasted: Compostable Stretch Wraps Hit the Market
With landfills overflowing with plastic waste, an Australian company decided to develop the first fully-compostable alternative to plastic wrap made from potato waste, and the enterprise is looking to become as circular as possible in the following years.
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Environment United StatesLess Insecticides Have Led to Cleaner Air (a Win for People’s Health!)
New research shows that greater protections against the use of insecticides in the Great Lakes region of the United States have worked, with the atmospheric concentration of three insecticides falling so low that they are now undetectable.