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Senegal: Africa’s New Waste Warrior?
Speaking Monday on the sidelines of Eid prayers, Senegalese President Macky Sall reiterated his commitment to making his country into a trailblazer in environmental protection. “I want Senegal to be identified as one of the cleanest countries in Africa”, Sall
Plastic waste sickens and weakens foraging seabirds
Birds suffer from a variety of health conditions from health cholesterol to impaired kidney function.
Banning single-use plastics helps. Not using them voluntarily helps too
A global initiative called Plastic Free July challenges people not to use disposable plastic items for a month.
WWF: unknowingly we each eat a plastic credit card a week
Credit cards are hardly considered nutritious treats, yet we all gobble them down each week, in a way.
Plastic pollution in the seas is worse than we’ve thought
More microplastics accumulate at depths from 200m to 600m than on the surface, which spells more trouble.
Each one of us ingests tens of thousands of microplastics
Each one of us unwittingly consumes as many as 52,000 tiny plastic particles a year, Canadian researchers say.