Word of the year? ‘Single-use’ glosses over the grim truth about plastics | Books | The Guardian
From bags to spoons, ‘single-use’ has become a sly way to describe plastic products that are littering the planet…
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From bags to spoons, ‘single-use’ has become a sly way to describe plastic products that are littering the planet…
Source: www.theguardian.com
A new factory dedicated to turning plastic waste into material for roads and car parks has opened, as part of efforts to tackle ocean pollution.
Provisional plans to ban single-use plastics, agreed Wednesday by the EU institutions, target products most often found on beaches such as plates, cutlery, straws and cotton buds, and abandoned fishing gear.
The widespread innovations in modern digital technology have a devastating downside to it: the accumulation of over 50 million tonnes of electronics waste (e-waste) globally every year. And that’s greater in weight than all of the world’s commercial airliners ever made, or enough Eiffel Towers to fill the borough of Manhattan in New York city, warns a new report released at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos,
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