Plastic

Discovery. Plastic Fantastic, Why We Fell In Love with Plastic. Audio, 27 minutes
Professor Mark Miodownik explores our love/hate relationship with plastic.
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Cardiff Students Union on why they've BANNED balloons. Good Morning Wales. Audio, 00:01:15
Is the party over for balloons? A students union has banned them on environmental grounds.
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BBC Radio Wales
Posted
23 November 2018
'I love keeping things out of the bin' Video, 00:02:05
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World
Posted
23 November 2018
Microplastics threat to ocean giants
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Science & Environment
Posted
5 February 2018
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192
Whale 'had 115 plastic cups' in stomach
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Asia
Posted
20 November 2018
How one supermarket's ditching plastic. Video, 00:01:07
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London
Posted
20 November 2018
Ditch receipts and other tips to be a green shopper
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Newsbeat
Posted
16 November 2018
Art from 'what ends up in birds' stomachs' Video, 00:01:37
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Humberside
Posted
15 November 2018
'Awful' ocean plastic inspires artist. Video, 00:01:37
Hull artist Mandy Barker is making pictures from waste washed up on beaches.
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BBC
Posted
15 November 2018
Sculpting dreamscapes from plastic pollution. Video, 00:03:57
The artist turning plastic pollution into fantastical dreamscapes
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BBC
Posted
13 November 2018
Could these balls help reduce plastic pollution?
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Business
Posted
9 November 2018
MPs to debate plastic-free fruit and veg
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UK Politics
Posted
8 November 2018
Cafe's takeaway mug scheme praised
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Highlands & Islands
Posted
8 November 2018
Supermarket opens first plastic-free zones
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CBBC Newsround
Posted
8 November 2018
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2
What is 2018's word of the year?
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UK
Posted
7 November 2018
University plans to stop using plastics
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Leeds & West Yorkshire
Posted
7 November 2018
This country banned plastic bags - should we? Video, 00:04:01
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Stories
Posted
6 November 2018
People Fixing The World. The Country Where You Can Be Jailed for Using Plastic Bags. Audio, 23 minutes
In Kenya you can be jailed for four years for carrying a single-use plastic bag.
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
'Mermaid' to swim 200 miles of Thames
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Gloucestershire
Posted
2 November 2018
I rescued two baby octopuses in Hawaii. Outlook. Audio, 00:04:19
Marine ecologist Sallie Beavers found two baby octopuses on a plastic bottle
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BBC World Service
Posted
1 November 2018
More big firms plan to end plastic waste
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Business
Posted
29 October 2018
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27
Beach plastic litter turned into poppies
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Essex
Posted
28 October 2018
Single-use plastics ban backed by Euro MPs
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Europe
Posted
24 October 2018
'We are not going to recycle our way out of this problem' Newsday. Audio, 00:03:22
MEP's are due to debate a ban on single use plastics
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BBC World Service
Posted
24 October 2018