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Yale E360
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Using GPS and satellite tags inside plastic bottles, scientists have found that plastic pollution can travel thousands of miles in just a few months. Their project, published this week in the journal PLOS ONE , tracked one bottle over 1,768 miles in 94 days. Read more on E360 ?.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 22, 2023
The causes: plastic and oil pollution, overfishing, fishing gear entanglements, development, rats and cats brought to islands by humans, and of course climate change. She texted Lachance Linklater to rush over to help pull the puffin out of the box and put a GPS tag on the bird.
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Environmental News Bits
JULY 15, 2022
I didn’t see the thin plastic thread running between one leaf on my pineapple and its tag when I put the pineapple in my shopping cart, when I checked out or when I unpacked groceries at home. Read the full story at NPR. Here’s how it went.
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 1, 2023
Things like cardboard and paper, glass jars and bottles, metal cans, and milk jugs and other #1 and #2 plastics. In fact, they cooperate with Chestnuthill to market recycled cardboard and plastics. Any resident of Monroe County can get a recycling tag to recycle the basics at the Waste Authority’s two recycling sites.
Physics World
JULY 27, 2021
Microplastics, tiny pieces of plastic debris less than five millimetres in length, are designed for commercial use or created through the breakdown of consumer products and industrial waste. The mice ate small plastic compounds joined to copper-64, a positron-emitting radioisotope, and DOTA, a molecule that helps bind copper-64 to plastic.
MGKF Law
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged that the “100% recyclable” labels on single-use plastic bottles supplied by the Defendants were false and misleading because most plastic bottles are not recycled and instead end up in landfills or incinerators due to a lack of recycling capacity and a lack of demand for recycled plastics.
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 27, 2023
At the international and federal levels, significant progress was made on climate action, plastic waste, toxic chemicals and biodiversity conservation. We anticipate the government will also start to seriously support the establishment of accessible return and reuse systems that reduce the need for more plastic packaging.
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