Plastics
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Buoyant, the size of a lentil and almost impossible to recover: how nurdles are polluting the oceans
Millions of the tiny plastic pellets are being washed up on the coast of Kerala in India in the latest in a se…
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Toxic tofu? How plastic waste from the west fuels food factories in Indonesia
Tofu factory owners in Indonesia’s East Java feed their boilers with tonnes of foreign plastics each week to p…
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India should consider ban on microbeads in personal care products, researchers say
Type of microplastics used in skin exfoliators and banned in UK and US found in 45% of Indian products studied…
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‘The Body Shop held our hand’: how the troubled British firm helped a recycling startup in India
The high street retailer may be shutting shops in the UK but its legacy lives on for a plastics company which …
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Plastic has made it to the bottom of Fiji’s rives; our environment is breaking down | Andrew Paris
In Pacific countries people lived in harmony with nature for centuries, now even river bed mussels are affecte…
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Delhi’s street vendors baulk at India’s single-use plastic ban
Ban on 19 items comes in on Friday, but researchers warn that millions are not prepared to use alternatives to…
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From bricks to bags to eco art: six innovative uses for plastic waste around the world
From upcycled school benches in India to plant pots in Peru, people are finding enterprising and ingenious sol…
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86,000 bottles of water on the wall: Tonga struggles with post-volcano waste problem
Tonga has seen an increase in plastic waste since the tsunami in January, after huge quantities of supplies we…
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‘Oil spills of our time’: experts sound alarm about plastic lost in cargo ship disasters
Sri Lankan beaches buried in pellets only ‘tip of the iceberg’ of environmental harm after analysis of nurdles…
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‘Nurdles are everywhere’: how plastic pellets ravaged a Sri Lankan paradise
The country’s golden beaches have turned black as debris released from a sunken ship continues to wreak enviro…
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Two more elephants die after eating plastic waste in Sri Lankan dump
About 20 elephants have died in eight years after eating plastic in open landfill siteConservationists and vet…
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Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of
Billions of these tiny plastic pellets are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet th…
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New Zealand is not as clean or green as we think – plastic waste is creating a crisis | Lizzy Carmine
Ignorance about plastic recycling has tricked us into guilt-free consumption – decision makers have to give us…
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New Zealand to ban most single-use plastics by 2025
Ban on plastics including cotton buds, packaging, cutlery, straws and fruit labels to be phased in from next y…
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Adani blasted over ‘toxic’ $4bn plan to use Australian coal to make plastic in India
Owners of Queensland’s controversial Carmichael mine say plant will use 3.1m tonnes of coal a year to make PVC…