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Plastics

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If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you could buy the NFL, Apple and Microsoft

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“It’s really concerning that so little plastic has ever been recycled and, as a result, so much plastic waste has leached out into the world’s environment. It’s a great, growing and genuinely world problem,” said RSS president, Sir David Spiegelhalter.

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Marinating in plastics

Environment
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Making the plastics found everywhere in modern life comes with a cost: more pollution

Environment
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There’s Probably More Plastic Trash in the Oceans Than We Even Thought

Environment

Shintech: Proposed Plastics Plant Looks Elsewhere

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Ontario Plastics Fire

For 4 days last July a black toxic cloud hung over the city of Hamilton, Canada’s steel city on the shores of Lake Ontario. It was the worst fire in Hamilton’s history, and one of the worst fires of its kind in the world. The Hamilton conflagration was a plastics fire. Polyvinyl chloride or PVC, […]

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The end of the plastic bag?

The plastic shopping bag is a major shopping convenience, but it’s also a major environmental blight, and some countries, like Australia and China, plan to phase out the use of the bags completely

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