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Aquaculture becomes a net-positive

GreenBiz

In more modern times, support for aquaculture has ebbed and flowed along with concerns about animal health and welfare, worries over the effluent pollution caused by wastewater discharges, and the unintended impacts of production infrastructure such as pipes and pumps on natural ecosystems. Among the emerging U.S.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

If the sourcing is done carefully, fake fish also should be devoid of the mercury and microplastics that can stem from ocean plastic pollution. Depending on who’s counting, about half of shrimp is farmed, which in Southeast Asia has been wiping out coast-protecting mangrove trees. Instead, she co-founded her own venture. .

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Nanoplastic pollution found at both of Earth’s poles for first time

Grist

Nanoplastic pollution has been detected in polar regions for the first time, indicating that the tiny particles are now pervasive around the world. The nanoparticles are smaller and more toxic than microplastics, which have already been found across the globe, but the impact of both on people’s health is unknown.

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Plastic tsunami: How plastic waste is on track to almost triple by 2060

Business Green

Short-lived" items such as packaging, low-cost products and textiles are expected to make up two thirds of plastic waste by 2060, the analysis warns, with the increase in waste levels set to be fastest in developing and emerging countries in Africa and Asia that lack significant recycling capacity.

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Aquaculture becomes a net-positive

AGreenLiving

In more modern times, support for aquaculture has ebbed and flowed along with concerns about animal health and welfare, worries over the effluent pollution caused by wastewater discharges, and the unintended impacts of production infrastructure such as pipes and pumps on natural ecosystems. Among the emerging U.S.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

AGreenLiving

If the sourcing is done carefully, fake fish also should be devoid of the mercury and microplastics that can stem from ocean plastic pollution. Depending on who’s counting, about half of shrimp is farmed, which in Southeast Asia has been wiping out coast-protecting mangrove trees. Instead, she co-founded her own venture.

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