Sri Lanka banned plastic bags and other disposable products on Friday after the collapse of the island's biggest dump led to a rubbish disposal crisis.
Environment
Sep 1, 2017
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A ban on plastic bags came into force in Kenya on Monday in a bid to slow pollution, with offenders liable to jail time or hefty fines.
Environment
Aug 28, 2017
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On your way home tonight, you might stop at the supermarket to grab some ingredients for the evening meal. If you're like many shoppers, you'll pass through the self-service checkout, scan your items, and hurriedly place ...
Environment
Jul 21, 2017
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Can exposure to inequality influence whether people support proposals such as the so-called "millionaire's tax"?
Social Sciences
Jun 28, 2017
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Once a fortnight we diligently wheel our recycling bin to the kerb, and then probably give ourselves a pat on the back while thinking of all the useful products we have helped to create, and the resources and energy we have ...
Environment
May 29, 2017
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Norwegian zoologists have found about 30 plastic bags and other plastic waste in the stomach of a beaked whale that had beached on a southwestern Norway coast.
Ecology
Feb 3, 2017
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A line of prisoners emerges from Bangkok's sewers covered in a thick film of slime and hauling buckets of sludge—frontline troops in the battle against a rising tide of plastic waste.
Environment
Sep 6, 2016
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New Yorkers will soon have to pay for disposable plastic and paper bags in a city that consumes billions of them each year.
Environment
May 6, 2016
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A little girl shrieks with excitement as she strolls along the beach: "Oh look mummy. Hong Kong snow."
Environment
Feb 2, 2016
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A revolutionary floating dam that traps plastic bags, bottles and other waste choking the world's oceans will be tested at sea for the first time in 2016, the Ocean Cleanup foundation said.
Environment
Dec 30, 2015
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