Plastic pollution

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By The Numbers

Biggest contributors to marine plastic pollution

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Environment

Cox's Bazar now home to Asia's largest ocean plastic statue

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Environment

Food for plastic: A unique move to rid St Martin’s of plastic pollution

A sack containing discarded plastic bottles is seen at a recycling yard in New Delhi, India on 22 November 2018. Photo: Reuters
Environment

Talks kick off on global plastic trash treaty

140 tonnes plastic waste in Ctg city littered in environment daily
Bangladesh

140 tonnes plastic waste in Ctg city littered in environment daily

Birds under increasing threat from plastic waste
Videos

Birds under increasing threat from plastic waste

Canada announces ban on single-use plastics
Environment

Canada announces ban on single-use plastics

Microplastics cause damage to human cells in the laboratory. Photograph: David Kelly/Photograph David Kelly
World+Biz

Microplastics particles found in human blood for first time

Tourists gather on the Kuakata beach of the Bay of Bengal in Patuakhali on Friday. Hotels and motels in the area opened on July 1 after more than four months because of the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: TBS
Environment

6,000 crabs die per day in Kuakata during tourist season: Report

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Environment

Up to 3 billion microplastics flow into Bay of Bengal everyday

Long-distance movements of the plastics enable the microbes to move from one ecosystem to another and act as a potential reservoir of invasive species. Photo: Bloomberg
Thoughts

The plastisphere: Colonised microbial hitchhikers and ecological food chain

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Environment

Covid-19 wastes worsen plastic pollution: UNCTAD

Plastic and other debris are seen on the shores of Cap Haitian beach, in Cap Haitian, Haiti October 9, 2018/ Reuters
Environment

Plastic pollution flowing into oceans to triple by 2040: study