Plastics

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Plastics 101: Blue Economy Opportunities and Considerations to Reduce Ocean Plastics

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World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert

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How Microplastics Are Permeating Our Oceans And Marine Life

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What if plastic could evolve to replenish the planet?

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Seizing The Moment On A Global Plastics Treaty: Finding The Common Ground To Mobilize Private Capital

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As Plastic Piles Up, So Does Funding To Startups Working On Alternatives

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New Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled, Including Plant-Based Meat Alternatives

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Plastics treaty negotiators must have access to the latest science: Global Plastics Summit

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Building sustainable waste-management systems to combat plastic pollution

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Corporate Climate Commitments Miss on Plastics, Ocean Group Says

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Celebrating Plastic Free July: 5 Tips from the IO Team

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Can we ethically reduce the amount of plastic in our ocean by keeping it in our economy?

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News Spotlight: Just How Big Is The Ocean Plastic Problem?

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World must ‘work as one’ to end plastic pollution: Guterres

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Opinion: Reducing Plastic Pollution in Our Oceans Is Simpler Than You Think

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New Innovation Alliance Calls For Pragmatic Global Plastics Treaty

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Plant-based seafood and plastic-eating insects among EIT Food’s Marketed Innovation Prize winners

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Winners Of The Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize Are All Using Seaweed

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Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize Winners Announced

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More than 170 trillion plastic particles found in the ocean as pollution reaches ‘unprecedented’ levels

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COP27: Key Takeaways and What’s Next

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How Trade Can Help End Plastic Pollution

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How Ocean Data Innovation Is Changing How We See The Sea

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Greenpeace Report: ‘Most Plastic Is Just Not Recyclable’

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Greenpeace Report: ‘Most Plastic Is Just Not Recyclable’

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Hofseth Biocare Sees Stars Starting to Align for Upcycled Ingredients

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Solving the Plastic Crisis Through Community Empowerment

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Indigenous-Led Solutions Essential to Reversing Plastic Pollution, Researchers Say

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UNDP launches second cohort of Ocean Innovators

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New Wood Chip Carrier Will Collect Ocean Microplastics

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5 innovators adding value to plastic waste and improving working conditions

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Plastic pollution: These are the top emitters of microplastics in our oceans

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So much plastic pours into the sea every year that species are now endemic to it.

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Ocean plastic pollution: investing for social and financial returns

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Turning the Tide on Ocean Plastics by Using Waste as a Resource

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Our waste is valuable: how one company is creating a circular economy for plastics

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Plastitar: mix of tar and microplastics is new form of pollution, say scientists

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World Oceans Day: Biden Admin Announces National Parks’ Plastic Phaseout, New Marine Sanctuary

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Which priorities should a global plastic pollution treaty focus on? 5 leaders weigh in

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Lampposts, rings, cameras: over 25,000 pounds of junk cleared from Lake Tahoe

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U.S. plastic recycling rate drops to close to 5%

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Can brands make reusable packaging more attractive than single-use plastic? NFTs could be the answer

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UN ocean treaty is ‘once in a lifetime’ chance to protect the high seas

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This is how to ensure sustainable alternatives to plastic

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Historic day in the campaign to beat plastic pollution

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The Plastic in Paint Is Massively Polluting the Ocean

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Plastic pollution is growing relentlessly as waste management and recycling fall short, says OECD

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Ocean plastic pollution threatens marine extinction says new study

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The war on plastics, 2022: A change of climate

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Paint Is The Largest Source Of Microplastics In The Ocean, Study Finds

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‘Nurdles are everywhere’: how plastic pellets ravaged a Sri Lankan paradise

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There are even nanoplastics at the North and South Poles - and they’re a bigger problem than we thought

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Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity, say scientists

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How scientific research can enable stricter plastic pollution laws

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We know plastic pollution is bad – but how exactly is it linked to climate change?

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Meet Mr Trash Wheel – and the other new devices that eat river plastic

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Companies race to stem flood of microplastic fibres into the oceans

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Heading Towards a Global Plastic Treaty?

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Insight Hour: Plastics and circularity—closing the plastic loop

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Coastal species are forming colonies on plastic trash in the ocean, study finds

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Plastic is Even Worse for the Environment than We Thought

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Recycled regatta: world heritage site highlights plastic pollution crisis

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Reframing tourism to address plastic pollution

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Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of

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Plastic pollution on course to double by 2030

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6 reasons to blame plastic pollution for climate change

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How plastic and chemical pollution contribute to the climate crisis

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Nearly 29,000 Tons of COVID Plastic Now Floats in the Oceans, Study Finds

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Maui Launches Stainless-Steel, Zero-Waste To-Go Container Program

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US plastics to outstrip coal’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, study finds

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‘The cusp of a reuse revolution’: startups take the waste out of takeout

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These Maldives islanders once saw sharks as the threat. Now they fear the plastic

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People want to do right by nature. They just need a nudge, study shows

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Research reveals how much plastic debris is currently floating in the Mediterranean Sea

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Spain to Ban Plastic Wrap for Fruits and Veggies

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Reduce, reuse, compost: Why recycling alone won’t solve the plastic crisis

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Investing in plastic waste can reap rich rewards

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We analysed data from 29,798 clean-ups around the world to uncover some of the worst litter hotspots

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What Is the Environmental Cost of Bottled Water?

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This is how New Zealand is tackling plastic pollution

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Reusable containers aren’t always better for the environment than disposable ones - new research

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Reusable containers aren’t always better for the environment than disposable ones - new research

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If We Want to Fix the Plastic Waste Crisis, We Need to Fix Our Data

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How a 'trash-to-treasure' mentality can change plastic waste

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Can We Fix Recycling? Some Companies Are Trying

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Welcome to the ‘plastisphere’: the synthetic ecosystem evolving at sea

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From Pollution to Performance Wear: Fair-Trade Clothes Made From 100% Ocean Plastic

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Covid-19 worsened the single-use plastics problem. Here’s why it could also fuel solutions

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Innovations in reusable packaging need a playbook. Here's why

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The ocean is full of tiny plastic particles – we found a way to track them with satellites

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Life in plastic: The journey of plastic from origin to ocean

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Hidden Microplastics in the Fabrics of our Lives

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Breathing life into plastic waste

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Call for global treaty to end production of ‘virgin’ plastic by 2040

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A ‘dating site’ with a difference that’s pairing waste with recycling opportunities

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8 amazing solutions to stop plastic flowing into the world’s oceans

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How to boost collaboration to curb plastic pollution in emerging markets

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Plastic rafting: the invasive species hitching a ride on ocean litter

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This architecture firm makes houses from plastic in the seas

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Plastic Pollution Raises Beach Temperatures, Threatening Marine Life, Study Finds

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Conservationists urge regulation to cut plastic pollution as voluntary scheme launches

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Decoding Ocean Plastic for Brands: Small Details, Big Impacts

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Better product design and recycling can curb plastic waste

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The Recycling Industry in America Is Broken

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4 Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution

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Eliminating microplastics in wastewater directly at the source

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Sir David Attenborough Backs New Tech That Can Recycle All Plastics

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New surveys reveal heightened concern about ocean pollution

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Plastic pollution disproportionately hitting marginalized groups, UN environment report finds

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Could plastic roads make for a smoother ride?

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Artificial intelligence software detects ocean plastics from the air

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The future of the plastics industry is green

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U.S. Continues to Ship Illegal Plastic Waste to Developing Countries

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Plastic bags recycled into fabric to fight pollution

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Where does plastic pollution go when it enters the ocean?

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6 environmental documentaries we all need to see

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How Paving with Plastic Could Make a Dent in the Global Waste Problem

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California Lawmakers Propose Package of New Laws Tackling Plastic Waste Reduction

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New algorithm can analyse plastic pollution in the ocean

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How Can Governments and Economies Prevent Ghost Gear?

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5 Not-So-Fun Facts About Plastics in the Arctic

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As Plastic Pollution in Rivers Gets Worse, Species Are Increasingly Living on Litter

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Coca-Cola company trials first paper bottle

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Is It Possible to Forever Rid the World of Single-Use Plastic Bags?

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MARLIT, an artificial intelligence-based app to study floating marine macro-litter

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How can investors help create a plastics economy that works? Event roundup

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Recycling Myth of the Month: Plastic waste is not just a 'developing country problem'

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Industry endorses plan to recycle 70% of plastic packaging globally

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New Plastics Economy report offers blueprint to design a circular future for plastics

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Bold solutions needed to end marine plastic pollution

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Progress on circular economy required to address plastic pollution

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Blue Vision? Progress by the G20 on marine plastic pollution

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The Plastic Pandemic

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Repurposed: Adding value to aquaculture via recycling

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New rules to tackle ‘wild west’ of plastic waste dumped on poorer countries

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550 Groups Ask Biden to Solve Plastic Pollution Crisis With Eight Executive Actions

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Seaweed based feed could see methane emissions from cows reduced

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Global Treaty on Plastic Pollution Gains Momentum

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IUCN Issues Brief: Marine plastics

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Why Plastic Pollution Is a Producer Responsibility

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The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It’s Loony

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Allianz Research: Sustainable Ocean

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A Global Ocean Free From the Harmful Impacts of Pollution: Roadmap for Action

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Plastic Is Everywhere—Except The One Place It Should Be

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Plastic Is Everywhere—Except The One Place It Should Be

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Turning off the Tap: How the world can end plastic pollution and create a circular economy

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A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required

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Peak Plastics: Bending the Consumption Curve

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Plastic Waste Makers Index

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The Tide Turns Toward Renewable Aquaculture Gear

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Association of zoonotic protozoan parasites with microplastics in seawater and implications for human and wildlife health

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Our Ocean Is Choking on Plastic—But It’s a Problem We Can Solve

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Connecting the Dots: Plastic Pollution and the Planetary Emergency

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Plastic Drawdown: A rapid assessment tool for developing national responses to plastic pollution when data availability is limited, as demonstrated in the Maldives

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Impacts of Plastic Pollution in the Oceans, on Marine Species, Biodiversity and Ecosystems

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As world drowns in plastic waste, U.N. to hammer out global treaty

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Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emission plastics by a circular carbon economy

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Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste

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Emergence of a neopelagic community through the establishment of coastal species on the high seas

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Growing environmental footprint of plastics driven by coal combustion

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From Pollution to Solution: a global assessment of marine litter and plastic pollution

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Plastic waste release caused by COVID-19 and its fate in the global ocean

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Oil companies are ploughing money into fossil-fuelled plastics production at a record rate – new research

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The New Coal: Plastics and Climate Change

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Modeling the Pathways and Accumulation Patterns of Micro- and Macro-Plastics in the Mediterranean

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Paint particles in the marine environment

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Global assessment of innovative solutions to tackle marine litter

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Toward the Detection and Imaging of Ocean Microplastics With a Spaceborne Radar

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Together Is Better: The Rumen Microbial Community as Biological Toolbox for Degradation of Synthetic Polyesters

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Ocean Plastic: What You Need to Know

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Plastic ingestion by marine fish is widespread and increasing

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3,000 Shipping Containers Fell Into the Pacific Ocean Last Winter

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Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful?

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Anthropogenic pollution in deep-marine sedimentary systems -- A geological perspective on the plastic problem

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More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean

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Pandemic Pollution: The Rising Tide of Plastic PPE

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Water pollution by plastics and microplastics: A review of technical solutions from source to sea

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Finding Plastic Patches in Coastal Waters using Optical Satellite Data

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The New Plastics Economy: Catalysing action

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The United States Federal Strategy for Addressing the Global Issue of Marine Litter

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Measuring Our Success: How Better Data Can Help Keep Plastic Out of the Ocean

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A Sea of Plastics Claims and Credits: Steering Stakeholders Towards Impact

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The Plastics Landscape: The Challenges and Possible Solutions

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River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans

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China’s plastic import ban increases prospects of environmental impact mitigation of plastic waste trade flow worldwide

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Plastics 101: Blue Economy Opportunities and Considerations to Reduce Ocean Plastics

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Navigating Plastic Alternatives In a Circular Economy

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The global biological microplastic particle sink

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Breaking the Plastic Wave: A Comprehensive Assessment of Pathways Towards Stopping Ocean Plastic Pollution

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Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere

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Addressing Marine Plastics: A Systemic Approach – Recommendations for Actions

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Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

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Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution

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Motivating actions to mitigate plastic pollution

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Message in a bottle: Open source technology to track the movement of plastic pollution

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Plastic pollution is killing marine megafauna, but how do we prioritize policies to reduce mortality?

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The Brand Audit Report 2020

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