You may be eating a credit card’s worth of plastic each week – study
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Plastic pollution is so widespread in the environment that you may be ingesting five grams a week, the equivalent of eating a credit card, a study commissioned by the environmental charity WWF International said on Wednesday. A plastic bottle is seen floating in an Adriatic sea of the island Mljet, Croatia, on 30th […]
Cleaning up polluted soil is “humanity’s next great challenge”
Thomson Reuters Foundation From Senegalese children killed by lead poisoning to Bengalis dying from arsenic in drinking water, experts called on Wednesday for a new global accord to address emerging health risks posed by millions of contaminated sites. Human activities, such as mining and manufacturing, waste from livestock, industry and urban sprawls, and pesticides and […]