Plastic waste articles
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Burning Plastic Waste is Not an Energy Solution
The world has a plastics problem. Never mind the horrifying pictures of a seahorse riding a cotton swab or a beached whale found with hundreds of plastic bags in its stomach. Plastic pollution has now progressed up the food chain to our diets, ingested as microplastic particles and even transferred from mother to fetus. Each More
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Could My Chilean Childhood Combat Plastic Waste?
When I was growing up in the ’80s in Santiago, Chile, during the Pinochet dictatorship, air quality was the environmental problem most present in our lives. It determined whether we could drive that day, how overwhelmed hospitals would be, and whether or not we would have physical education at school. Global warming was unheard of. And plastic was our friend: a cheap, versatile, and durable material that let us play, move about, and simplify our lives. We never anticipated its long-lastingness...
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Investigation Tracks Walmart’s Plastic Waste To Controversial Facilities In Southeast Asia
An investigation has uncovered the journey of plastic waste from Walmart's US recycling bins to controversial facilities in Southeast Asia.