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Masks and gloves found in the Mediterranean Sea by members of Opération Mer Propre, or Operation Clean Sea, in mid-May, just after France lifted some of its coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

French nonprofit warns ‘COVID waste’ could harm the environment

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Opération Mer Propre, or Operation Clean Sea, is a nonprofit group that cleans the waters of France’s Mediterranean coast. In addition to the usual waste they find, they’re now picking up masks and gloves.

A man picks through a huge heap of plastic trash

‘More waste, better taste’: This Garbage Café offers food in exchange for plastic

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Ethane crackers pollution, carbon emissions

New ethane cracker factories raise climate change and pollution concerns

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A hand holds small micro-plastics.

As the world grapples with plastic, the US makes more of it — a lot more

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a big pile of plastic garbage

America’s grungy ‘recycled’ plastic is creating wastelands in Asia

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Inside the long war to protect plastic

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Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The industry that makes it has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it on the market.

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