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LONDON — Just 20 companies are the source of more than half of single-use plastic items thrown away globally, according to a study that highlights the devastating impact on the environment. The Plastic Waste Makers Index, Tuesday, names the companies that are at the forefront of the plastic supply chain and manufacture polymers, known as …

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India is set to impose a nationwide ban on plastic bags, cups and straws on Oct. 2, officials said, in its most sweeping measure yet to stamp out single-use plastics from cities and villages that rank among the world’s most polluted. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is leading efforts to scrap such plastics by 2022, …

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The Bommasandra-Jigani link road near Bengaluru’s Electronic City is dotted with sleek, glass-fronted offices of pharmaceutical, manufacturing and technology companies. But swerve into one of the smaller roads and you will be faced with an all-too familiar sight: an unofficial landfill spread out over an acre and rising several metres high, its base strewn with …

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Alchemy was the talk of the town in 15th century Europe. The who’s who of the scientific fraternity was hunched over tables trying to create gold and silver using science and sorcery. But their attempts landed them nowhere near the material that kicked off a revolution some hundreds of years later. It was polymer, a …

An Indian consumes 11kg plastic every year and an average American 109kg Read More »

Martin Wagner was annoyed that his colleagues were always talking about microplastics in the ocean. It was 2010 and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch had been headline news. Here was this massive gyre, formed by circular ocean currents in the Pacific Ocean, reportedly brimming with plastic particles, killing sea turtles and seagulls. Wagner, a professor …

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