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With growing calls for the need to reduce plastic production, industry groups are pushing back. 
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An analysis of coastal rubbish collected over a decade reveals almost half of it is local litter, but in some areas plastic is washing up from overseas
Lewis Adnan's insight:
Researchers in Australia have made a collaborative effort to count and categorize all trash that washes up on their beaches. They have managed to get a broad sense of where the trash originates from. Knowing where it derives from is important for informing policymakers on how to be effective. They noted that other countries seem to struggle to analyze plastic waste from the water because it is many separate efforts instead of a collaborative goal and system.
Joong Soo Kim's comment,
October 20, 2021 12:04 AM
Plastics are everywhere now. I am surprised at the number of people involved in clean-up efforts for a decade. Trashes littered by people account for 48% of all marine debris and I think this shows how we do not really care about the environment. It is good to hear that Australia decides to make all packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025. Cleaning up is important and could be helpful, but we need to come up with something that can solve this problem because the amount of trash we make exceeds the amount of trash we clean up.
Brennan LaMont's comment,
October 20, 2021 1:42 PM
This would be interesting data to collect. I have heard of some islands in the Pacific, such as Midway, explaining that plastic washes up in-mass from overseas, but did not explain if they tracked how much came from where. Projects like this may be able to show where plastic pollution is coming from to assist in efforts to stop this type of pollution at the source.
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Today, The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative, solutions-driven initiative rooted in four ambitious goals intended to drive significant systems change by unifying diverse cross-sector approaches, setting a national strategy, and creating scalable solutions to create a path forward toward a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025. The first North American Pact of its kind, the U.S. Pact is a collaboration led by The Recycling Partnership, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Via EcoVadis
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A high-end organic foods retailer promoted as “plastic-free shopping” has mandated disposable plastic gloves for customers in its stores in Singapore as a coronavirus prevention measure. Via EcoVadis
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July 6, 2020 9:20 PM
Individual countries realize the need to increase environmental health as the economy reopens. A food retailer is helping on a smaller scale by introducing disposable gloves. These will cause less or no harm to the environment if people decide to throw them in the street as opposed to disposing of them properly.
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B.C. resident working with ocean conservation team to track trash on Soko Islands
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Nobody wants to get infected by COVID-19, aka coronavirus. As the world prepares for the impending spread of the virus, we’re seeing basic necessities fly off the shelves, buying restrictions of one bag of rice per customer, Italy in lockdown mode, and even the President of Portugal putting himself
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People are bringing in luggage, laundry hampers, pots, and buckets to carry groceries after a new plastic bag ban in Thailand.
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A report finds that recycling rates in Oregon are in decline, due in part to increased use of non-recyclable plastics.
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Dozens of laborers and factory operators sit hand-cuffed in rows on the pavement at an industrial park in Malaysia.
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October 18, 2019 9:59 AM
Sustainability is a worldwide challenge
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When completed, Royal Dutch Shell's newest plant in Pittsburgh will produce millions of tons of plastic.
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Snorkeling off the California coast, a high school student found heaps of golf balls on the ocean floor. With a marine scientist, she showed that golf courses were producing tons of plastic pollution.
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Advancements in satellite remote sensing techniques are paving the way toward the development of high resolution and temporal maps of marine microplastic distribution.
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Environmentalists and industry are at odds over a November ballot initiative that would reduce single-use plastics and polystyrene food containers.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This has been way too long a time in coming. While this step would be progress, we really need a closed loop economy which considers material and energy streams beyond plastic/hydrocarbons.
Gizelle K Monicco's comment,
April 19, 2022 12:19 PM
As unfortunate as it is, seeing overflowing trashcans and just pure trash almost everywhere is CA is very common. Living in Los Angeles, by downtown, I can say that I see my daily share of trash almost everywhere I look, and a lot of it is plastic bottles or plastic products. We can definitely reduce that
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A state district judge sent critical air permits for a $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex back to state environmental regulators so they can take a closer look at the St.
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For decades, public agencies and environmental advocates have worked to “Keep Tahoe Blue” by reducing the amount of pollution that makes its way into the Lake, including everything from
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Indonesia has been in hot water over its contribution to marine waste since 2015, when a report by researcher Jenna Jambeck ranked Indonesia as the world’s second-worst marine plastic polluter for allowing about 1.29 million tons of plastic waste to enter the ocean in 2010 as a result of improper waste management. Via EcoVadis
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On some measures, the global governance of plastic is improving. Curbside recycling and community cleanups are increasing. Companies like Toyota, Walm…
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On the occasion of the National Environment Day, Provis, one of the leading estate management companies in the UAE, has pledged to eliminate single-use plastics from its offices and common areas within the communities it manages. The green initiative falls in line with the UAE vision 2021 that aims to create and maintain a sustainable environment. Via EcoVadis
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Kamilo Beach, located on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been called one of the most plastic-polluted spots on Earth
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Now the plan is to recycle that plastic into products you can buy to help fund the effort.
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Textile companies burnish their sustainability profiles by using recycled PET but it's difficult to verify material integrity claims.
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A South Coast city’s new ordinance which tries to reduce the use of single-use plastics is now in effect. Santa Barbara’s new ordinance bans food and
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Los Angeles • A trash collection device deployed to corral plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii has broken apart and will be hauled back to dry land for repairs.
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