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- Drowning in plastic: Visualising the world’s addiction to plastic bottles https://graphics.reuters.com/ENVIRONMENT-PLASTIC/0100B275155/index.html 9 comments
- Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/china-food-delivery-trash.html 63 comments
- UN plastics treaty: don't let lobbyists drown out researchers https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01089-2 17 comments
- We are drowning in plastic https://graphics.reuters.com/ENVIRONMENT-PLASTIC/0100B275155/index.html 8 comments science
- In a World Drowning in Plastic Pollution, a Surge in Plastic Production Looms https://greenthatlife.com/plastic-production-surge-looms/ 7 comments environment
- Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/china-food-delivery-trash.html?partner=ifttt 8 comments technology
- With Cambodia ‘drowning in a wave’ of waste, plastic could be banned at Angkor Wat https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/with-cambodia-drowning-in-a-wave-of-waste-plastic-could-be-10388780 7 comments worldnews
- As world drowns in plastic waste, U.N. to hammer out global treaty https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/as-world-drowns-in-plastic-waste-u-n-to-hammer-out-global-treaty/ 5 comments environment
- As Africa Drowns in Garbage, the Plastics Business Keeps Booming https://theintercept.com/2020/04/19/africa-plastic-waste-kenya-ethiopia/ 17 comments worldnews
- As Africa Drowns in Garbage, the Plastic Business Keeps Booming https://theintercept.com/2020/04/19/africa-plastic-waste-kenya-ethiopia/ 4 comments worldnews
- Awesome Public Service Pierce About the Tsunami of Plastic Bags Literally Drowning Our World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsd21zp89zm 3 comments politics
- Canadaian recycling plant is drowning in a sea of untreated plastic, paper and metal http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/recycling-crisis-1.4708586 17 comments worldnews
- A Global Treaty Can Turn the Tide on Ocean Waste: The evidence of oceans drowning in plastic pollution is overwhelming. Only an internationally coordinated plan can reverse the damage. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ocean-plastic-pollution-treaty 27 comments environment
- The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a “solution” that works like magic. Don't be fooled. https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis 7 comments environment
- Glass Bottles for Milk? Considering the negative impact that plastic has on our environment combined with our increased dependency on the same for day to day things and the realization that pretty soon, we all will be drowning in plastic, shouldn't Glass Bottles make a comeback. https://friendsoftheearth.uk/plastics/plastic-or-glass-milk-bottles-crate-expectations 3 comments india
- India certainly is drowning in plastic. Even in places where it is banned, it hardly makes any difference. People need a fucking plastic bag to carry even one packet of milk . Drives me Insane https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/plastic-planet-waste-pollution-trash-crisis/ 14 comments india