An international agreement to end plastic pollution is due to be sealed this year in Busan, South Korea. At the penultimate round of negotiations, held in Ottawa, Canada, Rwanda and Peru proposed a target to cut the weight of primary plastics produced worldwide by 40% by 2040, compared with 2025. This is the first time that a limit on the production of plastic has been considered at the U.N. talks aiming to develop an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution. Of the...
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The increasing sense of environmental responsibility of both consumers and companies has triggered a transition towards alternative materials which are perceived as more sustainable than plastics.
With every inhalation, we might be introducing microplastics and nanoplastics into our bodies, posing potential health risks.
Not all plastics are created equal, and the same goes for recycling them.
“I’m posting this knowing full well that it will have absolutely no effect. It isn’t going to stop,” the actor wrote on Instagram.
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