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China successfully launches mission sending astronauts to new space station

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15th Zaisubao (Anhui) Plastic Recycling Trade Fair in 2021

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Labor Day Holiday Announcement

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The UK is dumping our waste on other countries

Well over half of the household plastic packaging the government claims is recycled is sent abroad, most of it going to countries with very low recycling rates and a serious problem  with plastic waste being dumped or burned illegally.

Unbelievably, the amount the UK sends abroad is the equivalent of three and a half Olympic swimming pools every single day.

The government claims all of this exported plastic gets recycled, but the truth is we have no idea what really happens to it because no one bothers to check.

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The North America plastic bottles and containers market was valued at USD 35.79 billion in 2020 and expected to reach USD 49.99 billion by 2026 and grow at a CAGR of 5.95% over the forecast period

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Microplastics found to alter shape of and de-cluster human lung cells

A growing body of research has started to illuminate the widespread impacts of plastic pollution, and the downstream effects of it on the environment and human health. A new study has delved into the kind of damage microplastics can cause to human lungs, with researchers observing changes to the shape of lung cells and a slowdown in their metabolism when exposed to these tiny plastic particles.

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‘Single-use plastics’ to be phased out in Australia from 2025 include plastic utensils and straws

National agreement on items covered by ban should provide businesses with certainty and ease consumer confusionPlastic cutlery and straws are among the types of single-use plastics to be phased out in Australia from 2025 under a plan to reduce plastic waste.

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15th Zaisubao (Anhui) Plastic Recycling Industry Trade Fair in 2021 is waiting for you.

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Law to reduce plastic waste, ban Styrofoam statewide passes House floor vote

It looks increasingly likely that Washington will ban Styrofoam, reduce plastic waste and strengthen recycling markets. A bill to that effect is nearly through the Legislature.

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‘Municipal Solid Waste’ generated in India set to increase 7 times in the next 30 years

65 million tonnes of waste is generated every year in India as per current estimates

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Beijing to ban production of non-degradable plastic items

Beijing to ban non-degradable plastic bags and single-use plastic items in key industries, aiming to further reduce plastic pollution, the city's Market Supervision Bureau announced on Wednesday, adding the ban will take effect on July 1.

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79% support UK ban on sample sachets to reduce plastic waste Almost eight-in-ten Britons say plastic sample sachets should be banned in the UK, and more than four-in-five say the Government should not ignore their impact on plastic pollution. These figures come from a poll of 2,000 over-18s in the UK, conducted by One Poll and commissioned by campaign group A Plastic Planet as part of its Sack the Sachet campaign.

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Malaysia sends back over 300 containers of illicit plastic waste

Malaysia said on Tuesday it had sent 267 containers of illegal plastic waste back to their countries of origin since 2019, and was in the process of returning 81 more.

Malaysia became the destination of choice for the world’s plastic waste after China banned imports in 2018, but is struggling to fend off a deluge of generally unlicensed unrecyclable garbage.

New U.N. rules on the trade of hazardous waste under the Basel Convention came into force on Jan. 1, intended to discourage the production of hard-to-recycle plastics and to prevent rich countries dumping trash in the developing world, where it often ends up polluting the local environment and the ocean.

Signatories to the Convention may only trade plastic waste if it is clean, sorted and easy to recycle - unless the importing country has granted an exemption.

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India Proposes Phase Out of Single-Use Plastic Items by 2022 India’s central government has issued a draft nationwide proposal to mandate certain requirements for plastic carry-out bags and to ban certain single-use plastics beginning in 2022.

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Coca-Cola Introduces New 100% Recycled Bottle in U.S.

In December 2020, a report found Coca-Cola was the top corporate plastic polluter for the third year in a row, meaning its products were found clogging the most places with the largest amounts of plastic pollution.

The company seems to be aiming to clean up its act somewhat this year with the introduction of a 13.2-ounce bottle made with 100-percent recycled PET (rPET) plastic. The company announced the new bottle's debut in select U.S. states this February, but environmental organizations said the move was too little, too late.

"In 1990, Coca-Cola and Pepsi announced plans to sell their products in recycled plastic bottles. The Washington Post quoted Greenpeace as 'unimpressed' at the time, urging the companies to eliminate single-use plastics altogether," Greenpeace USA senior plastics campaigner Kate Melge said in a statement emailed to EcoWatch. "Thirty one years later, companies should not still be boasting about transitioning to recycled content. We remain unimpressed."

The new bottles are the first ever made with 100 percent rPET plastic in the U.S.,