Carrier bag spat erupts as Islamabad moves to ban plastic
Islamabad, PakistanThomson Reuters Foundation When inspectors showed up to investigate reports that a popular Islamabad take-out restaurant was flaunting the city’s new plastic bag ban last week, the response was less than contrite. Video footage – which quickly appeared on social media – showed one of the inspectors being grabbed and shoved. Islamabad’s district commissioner […]
WOW!: PLASTIC FROM BURLAP? BANGLADESH INVENTS A GREEN THROWAWAY BAG
RAFIQUL ISLAM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, talks to Bangladeshi scientist Mubarak Ahmad Khan about his invention of a “plastic-like” bag made from jute…
Presbyterian church in Trinidad and Tobago launches reusable plastic bags in bid to clean-up the sea
With plastic a growing pollution problem in the reefs and waters around the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, the Presbyterian Church there has launched its own reusable bags to help reduce the amount of plastic bags in the sea. “We have launched reusable bags that we can take to the supermarket, to the […]
NEW! A SUSTAINABLE LIFE: HERE’S HOW MANY TIMES YOU ACTUALLY NEED TO REUSE YOUR SHOPPING BAGS
As bans on single-use plastic bags become more commonplace, TREVOR THORNTON, lecturer in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Australia’s Deakin University, looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at how many times shoppers need to use reusable bags to compensate for their larger environmental impact…
European efforts to curb plastic litter in oceans are working – researchers
Thomson Reuters Foundation The number of plastic bags found in the seas around Britain has significantly dropped since 2010 as European governments crack down on their use, researchers said on Thursday. The percentage of trawls by fishermen that catch at least one plastic bag in the greater North Sea, off Britain’s east coast, more than […]
TRENDSPOTTER: BANNING THE (PLASTIC) BAG
DAVID ADAMS takes a quick look at the global trend to ban the plastic bag…