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Covid-19 has also backfired the significant wins over plastic waste with usage of single-use plastic products like masks and gloves surging in the pandemic.
From ghost nets to dead turtles, the founder of the Ocean Voyages Institute shares what they find hauling plastic waste out of the Pacific Ocean.
The rise of single-use plastics to tackle the coronavirus is understandable, but as face masks become mandatory the decision over which type to have is becoming more important. Single use plastic is winding up in our oceans, but the pandemic is also allowing companies and governments to cover reversing on decisions and action that will help reduce our plastic waste.
And they have a plan to dramatically reduce plastic pollution by 80% by 2040.
Environmental activists are sounding the alarm as city streets become littered with masks and gloves, and single-use plastics get a new lease on life.
Penzance, a coastal town in England, achieved "plastic free" accreditation in 2017, since then more than 100 other communities have done the same.
Kenya has harsh penalties for those caught manufacturing, selling, importing or using single-use plastics, yet the country still struggles to reduce its waste.
It's littering the bottom of the ocean and poisoning animals, plastic waste was truly everywhere in 2019.
ANI's second public misstep in a week came just before news broke that the Modi government had shelved the plan to ban single-use plastic on Gandhi Jayanti.
The plan was for PM Narendra Modi to outlaw six items on the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.