Tag: pollution

• Tuesday, February 15th 2022 - 08:52 UTC

  Chile starts path to full ban of single-use replaceable plastic items

  

  Chile's new law banning single-use straws, chopsticks, and plastic cutlery in food vending establishments, as well as plastic bottles in supermarkets, has entered into force since Sunday and will gradually increase its environmentally-friendly mandate in the coming years.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:41 UTC

  Greenpeace: “Coca Cola, Nestlé, Pepsi, ”world's top corporate plastic polluters”

  

  Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo are the top 3 most identified companies in global brand audits for the second year in a row, according to a new report: “BRANDED Volume II: Identifying the World's Top Corporate Plastic Polluters”, released by Greenpeace.

• Wednesday, August 18th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Plastic pollution and ocean acidification reduce Antarctic krill development, BAS research

  

  Plastic pollution combined with ocean acidification hinders the development of Antarctic krill in the Southern Ocean, research published in Marine Frontiers reveals.

• Friday, July 24th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Ecuador promotes mining but with stricter regulation for waste dams

  

  Ecuador unveiled new, tighter regulations for the design and construction of mining waste dams, seeking to avoid disasters like the tailings dam collapse that killed hundreds at a Vale site in Brazil last year.

• Tuesday, November 19th 2019 - 05:29 UTC

  Hazardous levels of pollution in Sydney as bushfires advance on Australia's largest city

  

  Sydney was shrouded in dangerous haze on Tuesday as smoke from bushfire blazing along Australia's eastern board sent contamination levels soaring in the country's biggest city.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Ecuador combats pollution: recyclable plastic bottles exchanged for money to buy local transport tickets

  

  Looking after the environment is paying off in Ecuador, at least for public transport users in the business hub of Guayaquil. A new scheme aimed at combating garbage and pollution allows people to exchange recyclable plastic bottles for money to buy bus tickets.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  Record diver detects plastic bag at the deepest place on Earth

  

  On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a Texas investor found something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world: trash.

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  What is Earth Day, and what is it meant to accomplish?

  

  On April 22, 1970, millions of people took to the streets to protest the negative impacts of 150 years of industrial development.

• Friday, March 15th 2019 - 08:28 UTC

  Coca Cola uses three million tons of plastic packaging in one year

  

  For the first time, Coca-Cola has revealed it used three million tons of plastic packaging in one year. It's part of a report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation which is pushing for companies and governments to do more to tackle plastic pollution.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Patagonia indigenous peoples suing oil majors for “environmental contamination”

  

  A major group of indigenous people living in Argentine Patagonia are taking some of the world's biggest oil and gas multinationals to court for “environmental contamination,” Greenpeace said this week. The Mapuche are suing American giant Exxon, French company Total and the Argentina-based Pan American Energy, which is part-owned by BP.