Plastic pollution

Glass bottles excluded from deposit return plans
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Science & Environment
Posted
20 January 2023
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Business Daily. The nappy problem. Audio, 18 minutes
Nappies are one of the biggest contributors to plastic waste - we look the alternatives.
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
The man who first discovered plastic in the ocean. Video, 00:03:14
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Stories
Posted
15 January 2023
5 Live Science Podcast. All aboard 'Boaty McBoatface' Audio, 51 minutes
We go aboard RRS Sir David Attenborough, which could have been named 'Boaty McBoatface'.
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BBC Radio 5 Live
Available for over a year
Takeaways face plastic ban in October
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Science & Environment
Posted
14 January 2023
Witness History. Plastics in oceans. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1971 Edward Carpenter discovered plastic floating about in the Atlantic Ocean
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Spain tobacco firms to pay to clear cigarette butts
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Europe
Posted
6 January 2023
Five ways sequins add to plastic pollution
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Science & Environment
Posted
26 December 2022
Plastics ban 'may not be fully enforced until 2026'
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Wales politics
Posted
15 December 2022
A headache pill inspired my dissolving poo bags
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Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland
Posted
6 December 2022
UK plastic-alternative maker wins Earthshot Prize
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Business
Posted
2 December 2022
Flooded waste water plant filters wash up on beach
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Scotland
Posted
24 November 2022
The Nigerian teens turning trash into fashion treasure
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Africa
Posted
22 November 2022
Beach litter volunteers collect 48,000 items
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Guernsey
Posted
17 November 2022
Waste from across world found on remote British island
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Science & Environment
Posted
16 November 2022
New use for wool to help fight climate change
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Gloucestershire
Posted
16 November 2022
'Recycling rangers' aim to make school plastic-free
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Stoke & Staffordshire
Posted
15 November 2022
Business Daily. Business Daily Meets: Boyan Slat. Audio, 18 minutes
We speak to the man who wants to rid the world’s oceans of plastic.
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Island seabirds feeding chicks plastic and glitter
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Wales
Posted
5 November 2022
BBC Inside Science. Monkeypox. Audio, 35 minutes
Could you have it and not know ?
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
How Australia is seeing 'big shift' on plastic waste
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Australia
Posted
31 October 2022
More than 1000 bodyboards recovered from beaches
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Cornwall
Posted
28 October 2022
Call to make thousands of poppies for fort display
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Dorset
Posted
26 October 2022
Isle of Man to ban plastic bags and straws in 2023
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Isle Of Man / Ellan Vannin
Posted
20 October 2022