Plastic pollution
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Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles in the Earth's environment that adversely affects humans, wildlife and their habitat. Plastics that act as pollutants are categor
Beach cleanup in Ghana
Plastic bottle stuck on edge of river
Atlantic Ocean marine plastic on a beach in Tenerife
Plastic bags are an example of macrodebris.
Plastic recycling
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Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. Recycling can reduce dependence on landfills, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenh
Plastic pollution
…been significant efforts to reduce the prominence of free range plastic pollution, through reducing plastic consumption, litter cleanup, and promoting plastic recycling. As of 2015, an estimated 1.1 to 8.8 million tonnes of plastic waste enters the ocean from coastal communities each year. It is estimated that there…
Girl Scouts on a Keep America Beautiful cleanup in 1970. The Keep American Beautiful campaign was a greenwashing campaign by the plastics and other polluting industries founded in the 1970s to try to displace responsibility of plastic pollution and other disposable packing trash onto consumers as "littering".
Bales of colour-sorted PET bottles (blues, clear and greens) Olomouc, the Czech Republic
Mixed PET bottles crushed into a bale
An advanced recycling plant using optical separation