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  1. UN plastic pollution talks must result in ambitious treaty, leading expert says

    Professor Richard Thompson, a marine litter expert, says delegates must act decisively to ‘look next generation in the eye’

Delegates at the UN plastic pollution treaty talks in Geneva must secure an ambitious global agreement so they can look future generations in the eye, one of the world’s leading marine litter experts has said.

Prof Richard Thompson, who was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people this year for his groundbreaking work on plastic pollution, said decisive action was needed to protect human health and the planet. Continue reading...

    UN plastic pollution talks must result in ambitious treaty, leading expert says

    Professor Richard Thompson, a marine litter expert, says delegates must act decisively to ‘look next generation in the eye’ Delegates at the UN plastic pollution treaty talks in Geneva must secure an ambitious global agreement so they can look future generations in the eye, one of the world’s leading marine litter experts has said. Prof Richard Thompson, who was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people this year for his groundbreaking work on plastic pollution, said decisive action was needed to protect human health and the planet. Continue reading...

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  2. I remember when they told us plastic bags were the solution the practice of cutting down hundreds years old trees for grocery bags. Apparently the younger trees fiber wasn't strong enough to hold groceries.

    So we don't use old growth trees for shopping bags any more but we do for toilet paper!

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  3. World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

    Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”, it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5tn (£1.1tn) a year in health-related damages.

The driver of the crisis is a huge acceleration of plastic production, which has increased by more than 200 times since 1950 and is set to almost triple again to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060. While plastic has many important uses, the most rapid increase has been in the production of single-use plastics, such as drinks bottles and fast-food containers. Continue reading...

    World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

    Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”, it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5tn (£1.1tn) a year in health-related damages. The driver of the crisis is a huge acceleration of plastic production, which has increased by more than 200 times since 1950 and is set to almost triple again to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060. While plastic has many important uses, the most rapid increase has been in the production of single-use plastics, such as drinks bottles and fast-food containers. Continue reading...

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  4. 💥⚡️ Confirmation of the results of strike on transformer traction substation ECHE-901 Zamchalovo on the night of August 1-2, - CyberBoroshno

    ❗️Drone strike pierced the transformer tanks and caused lubricant to leak and burn, substation is located on important logistical route.

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  5. 🇺🇦✈️ Zelensky: Today, I appointed Lieutenant General Anatoly Kryvonozhko as Commander of the Air Forces.

    ❗️And most importantly, so that Ukrainian combat aviation and air defense forces continue to develop comprehensively and in effective interaction.

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  6. 😡 The Russian army continues to fight against civilians.

    ❗️As a result of a missile strike on a residential area of Mykolaiv, private houses were destroyed and civilian homes were damaged. There are injured.

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