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Plastic pollution is usually pictured as debris: a bottle on a beach, a bag drifting past a turtle, a tangle of abandoned net. Those images are accurate but they describe only the beginning of the story. Plastic in the o…
A modern cruise ship is a floating city. The largest carry more than seven thousand passengers and crew, with restaurants, laundries, swimming pools, medical centres, and theatres, and like any city they generate a conti…
For most of the twentieth century, the deep ocean was assumed to be beyond human reach. It was too far down, too dark, too vast, too remote from factories and farms to be touched by anything people did on land. That assu…
Most of us picture "breaking down" as disappearing. A banana peel rots, a paper bag pulps apart, and within weeks nature has reclaimed them. Plastic doesn't play by those rules. When a bottle or a fishing net ends up in…
A new study published in the journal One Earth has produced the first global index of macroplastic pollution by usage type, analysing data from 112 nations including 5,300 shoreline litter surveys and 355 peer-reviewed s…
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