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- The nurdle hunters: is combing UK beaches for tiny bits of plastic a waste of time?
- Australia news live: EU-style plastic tax could raise $1.5bn; Queensland braces for more storms
- Northern Spain on alert as plastic pellets from cargo spill wash up on beaches
- Reduce, reuse, refuse: tips to cut down plastic use in your kitchen
- Tesco switches pocket tissue packaging to paper to cut plastic waste
- US plastic bag recycling directory site taken down after ‘abysmal failure’
- Unilever accused of breaking plastics pledge as sachet sales approach 53bn
- Microplastics found in clouds could affect weather and global temperatures
- ‘We can’t carry on’: the godfather of microplastics on how to stop them
- Countries meet in Kenya to thrash out global plastic pollution treaty
- Microplastic-eating plankton may be worsening crisis in oceans, say scientists
- Plastic waste ‘spiralling out of control’ across Africa, analysis shows
- Drinks firms face EU-wide complaint over plastic bottle recycling claims
- Venezuelans handpick plastic and rake up oil in bid to save Lake Maracaibo – video
- Microplastics detected in clouds hanging atop two Japanese mountains
- Lego abandons effort to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles
- Plastics spill from Queensland’s Bribie Island could harm wildlife for years, expert warns
- ‘The air tastes like burnt plastic’: Skopje’s chronic pollution problem
- 90% of Great Lakes water samples have unsafe microplastic levels – report
- Dead flies could be used to make biodegradable plastic, scientists say
- US scientists turn old plastic into soap after fireside inspiration
- The Impact of Charging for Plastic Bags: Lessons for the Environment and Human Health
- ‘Real action gets results’: government urged to repeat success of plastic bag charge
- Australia’s annual plastic consumption produces emissions equivalent to 5.7m cars, analysis shows
- Tangled in marine debris, skate egg cases dry up and die on Peruvian beaches
- Plastic pollution: Campaigners around the world are using the courts to clean up – but manufacturers are fighting back
- How plastics are poisoning us
- Microplastic exposure breeds antimicrobial resistance
- The Ocean Race: Teams helping track warming sea and plastic pollution
- When the water isn't safe to drink
