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    The Salt
    East West Market in Vancouver, British Columbia, offered single-use plastic bags with embarrassing slogans to encourage customers to utilize reusable bags.
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    How A Grocery Store's Plan To Shame Customers Into Using Reusable Bags Backfired

    Jul 08, 2019
    A Canadian grocery store put embarrassing slogans, such as "Wart Ointment Wholesale" and "Into the Weird Adult Video Emporium," on plastic bags to get customers to use reusable shopping bags.
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    The Salt
    Lettuce sprouts amid rows of plastic covering the ground at One Straw Farm, an organic operation north of Baltimore. Although conventional farmers also use plastic mulch, organic produce farms like One Straw rely on the material even more because they mu
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    Organic Farming Has A Plastic Problem. One Solution Is Controversial

    Jun 07, 2019
    Many organic farmers rely on plastic as a form of mulch, but it ends up in landfills. Biodegradable plastic could help, but some worry about its long-term effects on soil health and the environment.
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    Joe's Big Idea
    As a child on a New York farm, Eben Bayer helped his dad shovel wood chips in the barn. That's where he noticed a stretchy web of fungus that became the basis of his biodegradable packing material.
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    VIDEO: Inventor Inspired By Childhood Memories Of Fungus

    Jan 24, 2019
    As a child on a New York farm, Eben Bayer helped his dad shovel wood chips in the barn. That's where he noticed a stretchy web of fungus that became the basis of his biodegradable packing material.
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    Environment
    Plastic garbage lying on the beach in Greece. The move would impose a complete ban on some single-use plastics across the European Union and a reduction on others, aiming to implement most measures by the mid-2020s.
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    European Parliament Approves Ban On Some Single-Use Plastics, Reduction On Others

    Oct 26, 2018
    The move would impose a complete ban on some single-use plastics across the European Union and a reduction on others, aiming to implement most measures by the mid-2020s.
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    The Salt
    Microplastics are not just showing up on beaches like this one in the Canary Islands. They are showing up in human waste.
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    Microplastics Are Turning Up Everywhere, Even In Human Excrement

    Oct 22, 2018
    A very small study shows that microplastics are in human waste in many parts of the world. While it's not entirely clear what that means for our health, it might be a sign that we need to pull back.
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    Technology
    A nearly 2,000-foot-long tube is towed offshore from San Francisco Bay on Saturday. It's a giant garbage collector and the brainchild of 24-year-old Boyan Slat, who aims to remove 90 percent of ocean plastic by 2040.
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    A Massive Floating Boom Is Supposed To Clean Up The Pacific. Can It Work?

    Sep 11, 2018
    The giant, U-shaped tube is designed to form a garbage-corralling barrier propelled by wind and waves. Its creator hopes to remove half the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years.
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    The Salt
    As awareness grows about the environmental toll of single-use plastics, retailers and regulators alike are finding ways to decrease their use. And straws have become a prime target.
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    Last Straw For Plastic Straws? Cities, Restaurants Move To Toss These Sippers

    May 31, 2018
    As awareness grows about the environmental toll of single-use plastics, U.S. retailers and regulators alike are finding ways to decrease their use. And straws have become a prime target.
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    The Salt
    A prep cook at a San Francisco restaurant drops fish skin into a food scrap recycling container. Turning food waste into fertilizer is popular in parts of Europe and is catching on in the U.S. But tiny plastics are also making their way into that fertili
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    Another Place Plastics Are Turning Up: Organic Fertilizer From Food Waste

    Apr 06, 2018
    Turning food waste into fertilizer is popular in parts of Europe and is catching on in the U.S. But tiny plastics are also making their way into that fertilizer — and into the food chain.
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    The Salt
    Manufacturers are not required to disclose if BPA, or other similar compounds, are used in their packaging.
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    Which Items In Our Kitchens Contain BPA?

    Oct 06, 2017
    Manufacturers are not required to disclose whether products contain BPA, which makes it hard to know which kitchen plastics include the additive — or other functionally identical compounds.
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    The Salt
    The majority of microplastic particles found in Dudas' samples consist of microscopic synthetic fibers.
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    Guess What's Showing Up In Our Shellfish? One Word: Plastics

    Sep 19, 2017
    Scientists predict that plastic in the ocean will eventually outweigh the fish there. Where is it all coming from? And is it making our food unsafe? Researchers are trying to find the answers.
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    The Two-Way
    The larvae of <em>Galleria mellonella</em>, commonly known as a wax worm, is able to biodegrade plastic bags.
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    A Worm May Hold The Key To Biodegrading Plastic

    Apr 25, 2017
    More than a trillion plastic bags are used annually. They're made of a notoriously resilient kind of plastic called polyethylene – but scientists have found that wax worms are able to break them down.
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    Science
    A fisherman collects water on a beach littered with trash at an ecological reserve south of Manila in 2013.
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    8 Million Tons Of Plastic Clutter Our Seas

    Feb 12, 2015
    A scientist estimating the weight of candy wrappers, bags, bottles, syringes and other plastic trash in the world's water sees a synthetic tsunami. Should China and India create more landfills?
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