On a busy morning in November 2024, a dramatic scene unfolded in a supermarket in Banani, Dhaka. Government officials, armed ...

Rashedul and I watch as they start tearing out handfuls of invasive water hyacinth and filling sacks with discarded plastic ...

All bags are not created equal when it comes to the environment. And paper might not be as green as you think.

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Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly and we have all seen pictures and videos of marine life ...

The National Environment Management Council (NEMC) has acknowledged that enforcing Tanzania’s plastic bag ban remains a ...

Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water ...

The environmental costs of plastic pollution ... Cotton and paper bags are also the worst when it comes to creating “eutrophication” – runoff of nitrogen into water that can lead to oxygen ...

with products like water bottles, plastic bags and clothing fibers acknowledged as major contributors to plastic pollution—but research by University of Toronto environmental scientists shows ...

We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly and we have all seen pictures and videos of marine life ...