05/12/2018
The President of the UN General Assembly launched a new global call to action on 4 December 2018, to help end the scourge of plastic pollution in the ocean.
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UNEP/Cyril Villemain | Local people from Watamu, Kenya, work with Local Ocean Conservation to pick up plastic on the beach.
Maria Fernanda Espinosa told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York, that her Campaign Against Plastic Pollution – a priority during her year in office – will hold both consumers and decision-makers accountable, urging the phasing out of single-use plastics such as water bottles, and raising awareness of the impact plastic pollution has on human and environmental health.
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16/11/2018
15 November 2018 (UN Environment)* — In the crowded classroom, a music class is underway. The sounds of flutes and shakers, gradually becoming more synchronized with practice, fill the air. Teachers at the front laugh in approval as children dance and stomp their feet with such energy that the school’s tin roof begins to rattle.
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But this isn’t an ordinary music lesson. The instruments are brand new, in the sense that they’ve just been created out of repurposed plastic bottles. The teacher, Shady Rabab, has travelled all the way from Egypt to teach the class how to make music out of trash that would otherwise end up on—or under—the ground.
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31/10/2018
31 October 2018 — When it comes to helping green our world, organic mushrooms from the local market may be just the tip of the iceberg. A new United Nations-backed report reveals that fungi could help ween the world off its plastic addiction, by degrading polyurethane in just a matter of weeks.
UN Photo/Martine Perret | Plastic bottles and garbage waste from a village in Timor-Leste wash on the shores of a river and then spill into the sea.
According to the first-ever State of the World’s Fungi report, Scientists at London’s Kew Botanical Gardens reported that these organisms have the potential to break down waste plastic – an important advance in a world where momentum is building to reverse the toxic tide of plastic that is killing marine life and polluting the ocean.
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29/10/2018
Bali, 29 October 2018 (UN Environment)*– A Global Commitment to eradicate plastic waste and pollution at the source has been signed by 250 organisations including many of the world’s largest packaging producers, brands, retailers and recyclers, as well as governments and NGOs.
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Photo from UN Environment.
The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment is led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with UN Environment, and will be officially unveiled at the Our Ocean Conference in Bali today [29 October 2018].
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22/10/2018
22 October 2018 (UN Environment)* — From the remote Galápagos Islands to the humid depths of the Amazon forest, governments are cutting back on plastic, citizens are cleaning beaches, and innovators are seeking alternative products as part of a region-wide movement to turn the tide on plastic pollution.
Awareness of the need to act is growing in a region that is particularly vulnerableto marine litter – the Caribbean is the second most polluted sea in the world – and to other environmental threats caused by our changing climate, such as increasingly powerful storms.
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04/09/2018
4 September 2018 (UN Environment)* – From food packaging in shops to straws in bars, single-use plastics are so ubiquitous in modern society that they can be hard to avoid while navigating through daily life. As a result, plastic waste is now reaching sites that were either pristine or, if contaminated by other means, untouched by plastic pollution.
One such place is Tisza River. The Danube’s largest tributary makes its way from Ukraine to Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Serbia – collecting plastic along the way.
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29/08/2018
29 August 208 (UN Environment)* –
Straws seem harmless: slim, measuring no more than 20 centimeters, they adorn cocktails, juices and soft drinks. But they are also among the top ten plastic items littering our oceans and coasts.
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Straws are rarely recycled and can take more than 100 years to degrade in the water. And when they do, they release potent greenhouse gases in the process.
Each year, up to 13 million tons of plastic reach the oceans and affect marine biodiversity and human health.
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24/08/2018
Hawai’i University researchers report the unexpected discovery that the most common plastics emit traces of methane and ethylene when exposed to sunlight.
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24 August 2018 (UN Environment)* – Authors of a study conducted at Hawai’i University recently reported another good reason to redouble global efforts to beat plastic pollution: as plastics decay, they emit traces of methane and ethylene, two powerful greenhouse gases, and the rate of emission increases with time.
The emissions occur when plastic materials are exposed to ambient solar radiation, whether in water or in the air, but in air, emission rates are much higher.
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23/08/2018
22 August 2018 (UN Environment)* –
A lot of attention has been drawn recently to microplastics in freshwater and marine environments, and the threat they pose to ecosystems and people’s health.
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The source of microplastics is generally thought to be well known: most plastic items are not recycled or incinerated when they are discarded.
Plastic waste therefore ends up in landfill or in our rivers and oceans where it gradually breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces and particles.
Microplastics are defined as pieces of plastic 5mm in diameter or less.
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