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Plastic mixed in with Canadian paper is making India’s air quality worse
Canada has sent 84,000 tonnes of paper waste to India for recycling, but when plastic is mixed in it is often burned, which makes the air toxic.
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Is Plastic Actually Being Recycled?
We’ve all been taught recycling is a sustainable way each of us can make a difference. But the truth is that the plastics industry paid millions to push this message--and to sell more plastic. Here's the dark truth and how it's led to...
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#TheMoment a 35-year-old message from Canada washed up in Norway
As part of a class project, Jennifer Boudreau threw a message in a bottle in the ocean in 1988 when she was eight years old. She never expected it to be found on the beach of a remote Norwegian island 35 years later.
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New York City's Tenement Museum Highlights 1950s Immigrant Experience
New York City's Tenement Museum Highlights 1950s Immigrant Experience
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Giant turtle made of plastic makes a statement against single-use plastic
This giant turtle made of plastic bottles attracts beachgoers in Chennai. Yes, you heard it right. The turtle is made of plastic bottles and iron waste- 600 kg of plastic and 700kg of iron waste to be precise. A giant turtle, which is...
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'Don't send plastics to India': paper mill operator
A paper mill operator in Muzaffarnagar, India, pleads to Canadians to segregate their paper and plastic waste before tossing it into the bins. A second's task, he says, would save the mill hours of labour.
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How your Tim Hortons cup turns into paper in India?
You throw your Tim Hortons cup in the bin and it ends up in the waste sorting yards of Indian paper mills like this where it is mixed with water, post segregation, to form a pulp. The pulp is washed, refined and cleaned, then the slush...
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How does your Tim Hortons cup turn into paper in India?
You throw your Tim Hortons cup in the bin and it ends up 11,000 kilometres away in the waste-sorting yards of Indian paper mills, where it is mixed with water, post segregation, to form a pulp. At this mill, they turn that pulp into...
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Be Well: How to Make Your Kitchen More Eco-Friendly
Be Well: How to Make Your Kitchen More Eco-Friendly
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Microplastics a growing problem in Great Lakes, Ontario AG says
Microplastics are appearing in the Great Lakes in a larger amount now than before, according to Ontario's attorney general. And there's a growing amount of research about the harms of having so much plastic in the waterways.
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Plastics without pollution? Lab-made enzymes could be key to creating new bioplastics
A London-based start-up is betting on enzymes to make sustainable plastics and break the chemical sector’s current reliance on oil and gas.
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Good2Know: Apple Launches High-Yield Saving Account
Tech giant Apple has launched a high-yield savings account with a 4.15 percent annual interest rate. The company said there are no fees, minimum deposits, or minimum balance requirements, and users can set up and manage their savings...
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'Mermaid Merle' breaks world record while cleaning up Miami waters
Merle Liivand set her fifth Guinness World Record by swimming 30 miles across Biscayne Bay in Miami in 14 hours and 15 minutes. Her mono-fin inspired people to call her 'Mermaid Merle,' and she accomplished her newest feat all while...
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Could 3D printing be the future of construction?
A house in Houston, Texas is providing a glimpse of what construction could look like in the future, believed to be the first 3D-printed two-storey home in the United States.
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One Good Thing: Meet This 4-Legged Unlikely Recycling Advocate
Thirteen-year-old border collie, Scruff, is an unassuming environment activist as he has replaced fetching sticks with seeking out recyclables on his walk.
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Fashion from trash... Welcome to Nigeria's 'Trashion' Show
A Nigerian NGO is hoping to make a difference in people's lives by showing off its delightful designs and outfits fashioned from everyday rubbish.
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'Remaking Our World' - Scottish exhibition explores the past, present and future of plastic
A new exhibition at the V&A Dundee traces the 150-year history of plastic and examines the future of the once popular but now controversial material.
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One Good Thing: An Aquatic Drone Gobbles Up Plastic Pollution
Plastic is expected to outweigh all of the fish in the sea by 2050 — unless we start doing something about it. Dutch company RanMarine is taking action with its WasteShark, an autonomous aquatic drone that swallows pollutant materials...
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Meet the girl turning trash into treasure in Malaysia
"As we saw the plastic pollution problem, my family and I realised that we needed to do something about it because this was our home and it is everyone's home."
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Calif. Probes ExxonMobil Over Accusations of Lying About Plastic Recycling
Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the EPA and the president of Beyond Plastics, joined Cheddar News to talk about the role of plastics in the climate crisis and California's investigation of ExxonMobil and other oil...
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Apple Focuses on Its Sustainability Efforts
Apple has revealed that the tech giant is working more on going green, reporting the use of more recycled materials than ever before. It's setting sustainability goals, aiming to cut emissions by 75 percent in the next 10 years and...
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Rural N.S. store eliminates disposable plastics to help save planet
Shifting away from single-use plastics, a store owner on Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island aims to reduce environmental waste by offering unpackaged foods in bulk and encouraging customers to shop with reusable containers.
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Hong Kong: COVID crisis worsens pollution, waste problems
Tens of thousands of people have been under quarantine in hotels and other accommodation. And now the policy is adding to already serious pollution and waste problems in the territory.
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Coca-Cola Teams With Bill Nye for Its World Without Waste Initiative
The Coca-Cola Company is teaming up with science education personality Bill Nye as part of its World Without Waste Initiative to describe the bottle-to-bottle plastic recycling process through a vividly animated, stop-motion short film....