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Plastic waste

  • Wildfires could be harming our oceans and disrupting their carbon storage

    Wildfires could be harming our oceans and disrupting their carbon storage

  • Microplastic pollution: Plants could be the answer

    Microplastic pollution: Plants could be the answer

    UBC scientists create device that uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water.

  • How this turtle helped reduce plastic waste in an office building

    How this turtle helped reduce plastic waste in an office building

    This turtle helped reduce plastic waste – and no, not by eating it.

  • Cigarettes account for half of waste recovered on Vancouver and Victoria shorelines

    Cigarettes account for half of waste recovered on Vancouver and Victoria shorelines

    Plastic waste—particularly from smoking-- still dominates litter collected from B.C. coastlines, a recent study from the University of British Columbia has found.

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