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Ban on manufacture and import of six popular types of items will begin in December 2022, and sales a year laterCanada laid out its final regulations on Monday spelling out how it intends to apply a ban on plastic bags, straws, takeout containers and other single-use plastics.“Only 8% of the plastic we throw away gets recycled,” said federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos in French,...

Pieter De Poortere is putting his best-known character, Dickie, to work to help galvanise opposition to a giant plastics plant in AntwerpBelgian cartoonist Pieter De Poortere was trying to do his bit for the environment: eating less meat and diligently sorting his rubbish – glass, paper, plastics. He realised it wasn’t enough. “I thought if we all sort out our trash, then everything will...

According to the Last Beach Cleanup and Beyond Plastics report, about 85% of plastic ends up in landfills with 10% incineratedWhen most people toss a plastic bottle or cup into the recycling bin, they assume that means the plastic is recycled – but a new report lays bare how rarely that actually happens.According to the Last Beach Cleanup and Beyond Plastics, the organization behind...