Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. A woman sorts plastics at the Santa Monica Recycling Center in California in 1992.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Earth Day History and Transformation. The launch of Earth Day back in 1970 marked a turning point for environmentalism and planet activists worldwide. We’re using more plastic. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015. billion hectares in 2015.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

How Earth Day Has Transformed Through Changing Trends. The launch of Earth Day back in 1970 marked a turning point for environmentalism and planet activists worldwide. We’re using more plastic. In the 1970s, 35 million tonnes of plastic was produced globally, mounting to 381 million tonnes in 2015.

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