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A new report by Oceana, which campaigns against the pollution of the world's seas, caculates that the online sales of Amazon created over 200 million kilos of plastic waste in 2019 alone.
Environmentalists are sounding the alarm over a new type of marine pollution, courtesy of the coronavirus pandemic.
Scooping waste from a Malaysian river to stop it reaching the sea, solar-powered barge The Interceptor is the latest weapon in a global battle to rid the world's waters of plastic.
Woodly Oy has been working on a carbon-neutral plastic substitute that's made out of plant cells from sustainably managed forests.
Bali is rolling out a ban on plastic straws and bags to rid the holiday island of waste as Indonesia scales up efforts to tackle its trash problem. Millions of tourists are drawn to Bali every year, but the tourist hub has recently become a poster child for plastic pollution in the country. In a first for Indonesia, Bali announced a comprehensive ban on single-use plastics last year, but full implementation was in doubt until last week, when the Bali government prevailed in a supreme court challenge from the Indonesian Plastic Recycling Association (ADUPI).
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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