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The fervour over plastic waste is not as informed as it ought to be. It is time to focus on more significant dangers to the environment.
Festival-goers increasingly treat tents as disposable, imagining they are put to good use when discarded. They’re wrong.
Australia doesn’t want to deal with its own recycling waste, so why do we think other countries should do it for us?
This year’s national conference of the Australian Marine Science Association is a plastic-free zone, as marine scientists aim to reduce the environmental burden of throwaway plastic.
The global focus on plastic pollution isn’t a distraction from other planetary issues.
A nanotube innovation using waste plastic could help solve one of the world’s energy problems.
Ever wondered where the 5p you pay for plastic bags in the UK goes?
Waitrose’s trial of packaging-free products in one of its stores is welcome news, but its just the start of what supermarkets should be doing to address the climate and ecological crises.
Food waste could be worse than plastic when it comes to harming the environment.
Recycling is a messy system at the moment. Here’s how we can clean up our act.
A year after China stopped accepting most scrap material exports, other Asian countries are following Beijing’s lead, forcing wealthy nations to find domestic solutions for managing their wastes.
Poorer countries can now refuse shipments of plastic waste and slow the build-up of pollution on their shores.
New research shows that chemicals leached from ocean plastic impair the growth and oxygen production of the planet’s most abundant photosynthesiser - endangering marine ecosystems and the climate.
The entire Cocos (Keeling) Island group is a little more than twice the size of the Melbourne CBD. So it’s hard to envision 414 million debris items washed up there.
As well as polluting our seas, plastics are warming the planet too. Urgent changes are needed to eliminate plastic’s contribution to climate breakdown.
Biodegradable bags still strong enough to carry shopping after three years in the ground show that ‘biodegradability’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Without action, the amount of plastic waste produced globally could reach as much as 265 million tonnes per year by 2060.
New research finds tiny particles in the atmosphere had been carried nearly 100km. Should we be worried?
We need a global treaty to combat plastic pollution, but a small group of countries is blocking real action.
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