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4 de may. de 2024 · Invisible plastic: Why banning plastic bags will never be enough. How ordinary items like toothpaste and teabags could actually be damaging our environment. 02:37. By Sarah Shamim.
A new study found that plastic bag bans in the US have reduced single-use plastic bag use by billions, with some cities seeing a 70-90% decrease. Read to learn more.
2 de jul. de 2022 · I had challenged myself to purchase a week's worth of food without bringing home any plastic in my grocery bag. That meant no jugs of juice, yogurt containers, plastic chip bags,...
While plastic has many valuable uses, we have become addicted to single-use plastic products — with severe environmental, social, economic and health consequences. Around the world, one million plastic bottles are purchased every minute, while up to five trillion plastic bags are used worldwide every year. In total, half of all plastic ...
13 de dic. de 2016 · In recent years, local and national governments have begun phasing out or banning lightweight plastic shopping bags. But alternatives are not necessarily greener: People buy more plastic trash bags when shopping bags are unavailable. And a British government study found single-use paper bags contribute more toward global warming than plastic bags.
15 de mar. de 2023 · March 15, 2023. Every year, around 500 billion plastic grocery bags are used worldwide. And an estimated 10 million tons of plastic are discarded in the ocean yearly. To help combat this...
28 de oct. de 2022 · By the numbers, it was 2.232 average plastic bags used per person pre-outreach, 2.072 post-outreach and 2.156 at the start of a Covid-based ban on plastic bags that occurred during the...
