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The EU is moving to ban 10 single-use plastic Items
If you live within the EU and you like using disposable plastic utensils, plates, straws, drink stirrers and earbuds, you aren’t in luck. The European Commission is planning to ban the use of such plastic items by 2019 in order
Microplastics threaten giant whales
Microplastics may seem innocuous enough. They are barely visible plastic beads that are the size of sand grains. What harm could they do? Plenty. Microplastics have spread far and wide in the world’s oceans, entering food chains. Even table salt
Turning CO2 into Plastics
There is already so much excess CO2 in the planet’s atmosphere that it won’t be enough for us to stop our current carbon emissions from growing in future. To make a real impact on Earth’s climate for the better, we