Young turtles are feasting on delicacies in the city’s waterways and spending a surprising amount of time alongside humans.
The Environment Minister has flown to Paris for critical talks on the proposed global treaty,saying she is concerned other countries are trying to make the targets voluntary instead of legally binding.
Supermarket giant Coles will phase out reusable plastic bags by July,following a similar move by Woolworths in April.
A gigantic belt of seaweed that can be seen from space has bloomed in the Atlantic since 2011. An Australian woman wants to turn it into plastic.
Some brands boast their products are made from recycled plastics dredged from the ocean. But there’s little to stop them using that label for plastics picked up on land.
Microplastics are everywhere and we consume them all the time. We still don’t know how bad that is for us.
The coastline of the Indonesian island is one of its greatest tourist attractions but every year a mass of plastic debris and other rubbish washes up on its beaches.
The company behind Coles and Woolworths’ soft plastics recycling program has been wound up,days after signing an agreement to hand its 124,000-tonne stockpile over.
The preliminary report comes as residents in East Palestine report a range of health concerns,such as respiratory problems,rashes,and unusual odours.
Two weeks after a train carrying hazardous material came off the tracks,locals are still feeling the effects. The town is also having to deal with a celebrity influx.
With the nation failing to reach recycling targets,the government says it is prepared to step in with regulations should voluntary codes fail.