Business Green
AUGUST 1, 2022
Number of single-use plastic bags supplied by supermarkets has fallen 97 per cent since the 2015 introduction of the plastic bag charge tax. The charge was last year increased to 10p per plastic bag and extended to all UK retailers. The charge was last year increased to 10p per plastic bag and extended to all UK retailers.
Planet Pulse
OCTOBER 27, 2020
New research combining Planet’s high cadence satellite imagery and other innovative technologies has successfully found the sources and pathways of plastic pollution in the Caribbean Sea. A boom is filled with plastic, and yet was only able to collect small amounts of it due to much of the debris passing it by. km2 to 0.77km2.
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Green Technology
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
In July 2017 China, which is by far the world’s largest importer and recycler of scrap metals, plastic and paper, notified the World Trade Organization that it planned to effectively ban imports of 24 types of scrap , which its environment ministry called “foreign garbage,” by the end of the year. Plastic scrap is especially problematic.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 18, 2019
.” Gelatex Technologies from Estonia has won the Green Alley Award 2019 – an annual prize recognising startups in the circular economy, which has been running since 2014. ” The material comes on rolls to allow rapid cutting, and to minimise waste. .” “With our technology we can give that waste a new life.”
Unsustainable
OCTOBER 12, 2019
The banning of disposable plastic water bottles is the most reasonable, sustainable, and conscientious plan for the future; and this ban should begin now. Furthermore, there is no simple solution to this issue, as plastic is produced by many different industries for many different purposes. In 2014-15, in Australia, around 2.5
AGreenLiving
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Tourists from all over the world flock to Spain’s coastal regions throughout the year; however, the rising amount of plastic waste accumulating in the Mediterranean is threatening to do irreversible damage to these once-pristine waters. Thankfully, one forward-thinking cruise company is doing its part to keep the damage at bay.
Green Business Bureau
DECEMBER 16, 2021
For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives.
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