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Uruguayan project uses virtual money to encourage plastic recycling
Feb 01, 2020 (AFP)
In return, she'll receive some virtual money on her phone that she can use for discounts on purchases at restaurants or partnered shops. It's part of a pilot en...
Bangladesh capital awash with plastic-coated posters
Jan 31, 2020 (AFP)
These posters -- of which there are an estimated 304 million -- will likely end up in sewers, rivers and canals, says activist Sharif Jamil. "If they are burnt,...
Vegan meals and old tuxedos: Hollywood red carpets go green
Jan 31, 2020 (AFP)
But while some scientists have welcomed A-listers' renewed zeal on climate change, others have questioned whether Tinseltown's jet-set elite are any sort of exa...
France cracks down on plastic waste, destruction of unsold clothes
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
The bill adopted by the Senate, after being cleared by the lower house National Assembly last week, bans fast-food restaurants from serving food that is not for...
Faced with high smog levels, Milan to ban cars on Sunday
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
The measure - which is not the first time that Italy's economic capital has banned driving within city limits - has been met with scepticism by some, with the r...
Researchers to conduct major Japan ocean microplastics survey
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
The survey organised by Japanese scientists and the Tara Ocean Foundation will be conducted by several marine research facilities located across Japan, from the...
Red Sea huge source of air pollution, greenhouse gases: study
Jan 28, 2020 (AFP)
The gases seeping from the waters -- which are ringed by the resorts and ports of several countries, including Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia -- then mi...
Moscow admits building highway via radioactive site
Jan 24, 2020 (AFP)
In his first comments on the environmental dispute, Sergei Sobyanin said officials will continue to build a highway and bridge over the Moscow river, but would ...
Bangladesh tears down building seen as symbol of corruption
Jan 22, 2020 (AFP)
The demolition of the 15-storey building in the capital Dhaka is set to be completed over six months using bulldozers as well as workers wielding hammers. It ca...
Bangladesh factories ordered shut to save key river
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
The country is crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers, but a recent industrial boom, including the emergence of the world's second biggest garment industry, has pro...
China's zero-waste activists fight overconsumption
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
But the growing embrace of consumerism is generating mountains of waste: The nation will produce as much as 500 million tonnes of waste annually by 2030, the Wo...
China targets takeout containers in bid to reduce plastic waste
Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)
The country is one of the world's biggest users of plastic, and the plan targets a 30 percent reduction in disposable plastic utensils used by the takeaway food...
Malaysia says won't be 'garbage dump' as it returns waste
Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)
The region has been flooded with plastic from more developed economies such as the United States and Britain since 2018, after China -- which previously boasted...
Egypt village turns a profit on used tyres
Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)
From early morning, workers covered in soot and dust can be seen sharpening their knives to cut huge tyres stockpiled on the village's roadsides. "The entire vi...
Heating woes fuel Balkan smog crisis
Jan 17, 2020 (AFP)
In recent weeks, Balkan capitals from Belgrade Sarajevo to Skopje and Pristina have been ranked among the world's top 10 most polluted major cities, according t...
In Seychelles, nature is prized above mass tourism
Jan 16, 2020 (AFP)
Her family is spending the weekend at the beach where a couple dipping their feet into the turquoise waters off in the distance are the only foreign tourists in...
New obstacles ahead in China's pollution fight: report
Jan 16, 2020 (AFP)
The country cut its national average level of airborne PM2.5 -- tiny particles that can penetrate the lungs and enter the bloodstream -- by 27 percent between 2...
How US sewage plants can remove medicines from wastewater
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
New work published in Nature Communications by a team including Carnegie's Tingting Xiang, Sophie Clowez, Rick Kim, and Arthur Grossman indicates how sea anemon...
India blows up luxury high-rises over environmental violations
Jan 11, 2020 (AFP)
The 19-floor H2O Holy Faith complex of 90 flats -- overlooking Kerala state's famous lush backwaters -- was the first to go down, collapsing in just a matter of...
Citizens battle to save China's sickly 'mother river'
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
Residents often faced a bitter choice: drink dirty, discoloured water and risk sickness, or pay high prices for bottled water and risk poverty. But artist-turne...
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