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Mar 26, 2019 · 2. Toxic sunscreen in our seas. As the number of beachgoers has been growing, so has the use of sun protection products. Many people are unaware but 14,000 tonnes of toxic sunscreen make their way to the underwater world each year. In fact, as many as 82,000 kinds of chemicals from personal care products end up in the oceans.
Dec 2, 2020 · The Ellen MacArthur Foundation advocates strategies at the heart of a circular economy – elimination, reuse and material circulation. Here are seven ways packaging is changing. 1. Direct elimination. The simplest way to prevent packaging waste is to consider whether the packaging is needed at all.
Mar 8, 2016 · Among the multiple symptoms revealing the current system’s drawbacks, two are arguably amongst the most striking: our analysis indicates (i) that 95% of the value of plastic packaging material, worth $80-120 billion annually, is lost to the economy, and (ii) that, on the current track, there could be more plastics than fish in the ocean (by ...
Jan 17, 2022 · 01:48. Plastic pollution is out of control and Uplink is looking for ideas to improve waste management and prevent waste at source. But, even though climate change is a global issue, great impact can be achieved on a local, community-based scale. A community-based solution is one in which the members of vulnerable communities are empowered to ...
Sep 27, 2019 · Plastic pollution poses serious ecological and economic threats to what is still a relatively pristine Arctic environment. Research shows even very small organisms like zooplankton can ingest plastic fibres, which may affect the amount of natural prey they consume and reduce reproduction rates. There is a general concern plastics and their ...
May 16, 2019 · More than 90% of plastic is never recycled, and a whopping 8 million metric tons of plastic waste are dumped into the oceans annually. At this rate, there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans by 2050. The World Economic Forum has played a crucial role in connecting TerraCycle, a global waste management and recycling company ...
Mar 4, 2021 · Large fibres can break up over days and weeks into even smaller pieces, due to turbulence from breaking waves and ultraviolet radiation from the sun. These are called microplastics, and they range in size from five millimetres to specks smaller than bacteria. Only about 0.3 million tonnes of that plastic is floating on the ocean surface.
May 5, 2022 · United States. The plastic recycling rate is falling in the United States but plastic waste generation is soaring. The recycling rate fell from 8.7% in 2018 to 5-6% in 2021, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This is because of a sharp drop in plastic waste exports, with China and Turkey banning such imports.
8.3 billion tonnes of plastic has made between 1950 to 2015 according to estimates. It's predicted that 75% of it is now waste, with 79% accumulating in either landfill or the natural environment. The world currently relies on mechanical plastic recycling, where plastics are sorted, melted and remoulded to create mainly lower-grade products.
Sep 24, 2020 · Emissions from 2020’s fires are 3 times higher than usual. As fires burn, carbon stored in trees and other vegetation combusts, releasing carbon dioxide and other potent greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere. This means that as fires increase, so do emissions.
