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Graphene Enhanced Protective Face Mask 😷 @indabUK #indabuk #Manchester
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Plastic Atlas - 12 brief lessons on plastic and the planet
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Plastic Atlas - The most important types of plastics were invented between 1850 and 1950. They have been refined, often by mixing them with toxic additives.
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Plastic Atlas - In 2019, along with 31 other companies, Coca-Cola published its plastic figures for the first time. The data show how much waste is generated by relatively few firms.
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Plastic Atlas - in 2015, 407 million tonnes of plastics were produced worldwide. In theory, all should be recycled. Reality is rather different.
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Plastic Atlas - Even if you try to avoid coming into contact with plastics, you will still be exposed to them. The body has no mechanism to protect itself.
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Plastic Atlas - Not all plastic is created equal. Some items have a lifetime measured in decades. But packaging makes up the largest share and typically has a very short useful life.
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Plastic Atlas - Single-use plastics have become an icon of the global plastic crisis. Their production is limited to a few regions of the world.
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Plastic Atlas - Luxembourg, Ireland and Estonia are Europe’s leaders in chucking out plastic packaging. Good to see: the downward trend from 2015 to 2016.
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Plastic Atlas - Worldwide, over 400 million tonnes of plastics are produced each year. Packaging accounts for more than a third of all plastics produced.
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Plastic Atlas - Since 2000, more plastics have been produced than in the 50 years before. The output of plastics continues to explode.
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Plastic Atlas - Many of the chemicals in plastic have an effect on human health. The consequences may be both serious and long-term.
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Plastic Atlas - The textile sector has less obvious effects on the climate than the car industry. But producing polyester generates a broad plume of greenhouse gases.
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Plastic Atlas - A woman who uses disposable menstruation products comes into contact with hazardous plastics for nearly four decades.
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Plastic Atlas - The production of a modern sanitary pad is not possible without using fossil raw materials and plastics.
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Plastic Atlas - How much plastic ends up in the soil is little researched. But soil contamination is thought to be between four and 23 times higher than in the sea.
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Plastic Atlas - Patents for feminine hygiene products have jumped sharply since the end of the 1990s. One reason is the mass availability of cheap plastics.
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Plastic Atlas - Bottled water is marketed as a healthy alternative to tapwater. Bottlers have to list the mineral contents in detail. Microplastic does not appear as an ingredient.
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Plastic Atlas - Microplastic particles that sewage-treatment plants cannot separate out are sprayed onto fields with the residual sludge commonly used as a fertilizer.
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Plastic Atlas - The oceans absorb a quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse emissions. Pollution by microplastics may put the biological carbon pump at risk. More research is needed.
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Plastic Atlas - Plastics are used in the textile industry not just in the production process, but also to protect items during distribution and marketing.
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Plastic Atlas - Plastic bottles, straws and bags are easy to spot. But the trash on beaches also includes less-visible garbage such as cigarette butts or cotton bud sticks.
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Plastic Atlas - In the early 2000s, Sardinians separated little of their waste. Public awareness and waste- collection practices have since changed radically.
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Plastic Atlas - Only a small share of plastic trash stays on the sea surface. The vast majority is either washed ashore or sinks: out of sight, out of mind.
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Plastic Atlas - Transport, energy and farming are the three sectors most often blamed for climate change. The emissions caused by plastics production are often forgotten.
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Plastic Atlas - Cheap fracked gas from the United States is flooding the market and fueling the plastic crisis around the world.
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Plastic Atlas - As they hunt, many birds cannot distinguish between a fish and a glistening piece of plastic floating in the water.
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Plastic Atlas - Ineos was founded in 1998 by the chemical engineer, Jim Ratcliffe, one of the richest men in Britain. He plans to expand plastics production in Europe.
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Plastic Atlas - In the USA, progressive states and cities aim to restrict the use of plastic bags. Industry lobbyists are working with conservative states to prevent such initiatives.
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Plastic Atlas - On average, each person on Earth generates 0.74 kilograms of waste each day. The amount increases with rising incomes.
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Plastic Atlas - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch floats off the coast of California. Here, currents bring together different types of plastic trash from across the world.
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Plastic Atlas - Just a few major corporations produce most of the world’s plastics. Some are household names; others are far less well-known.
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Plastic Atlas - The volume of “bioplastics” produced worldwide is still small. But it is becoming more popular as an alternative to fossil raw materials.
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Plastic Atlas - A bin bag that is made out of renewable raw materials implies a sustainable cycle, but it creates significant environmental problems.
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Plastic Atlas - The tide of plastic is tied to the economy. Economic growth leads to greater consumption, which means more packaging that must be thrown away.
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Plastic Atlas - A glance at the flows of plastics made since the 1950s shows that recycling is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Plastic Atlas - Britain and the USA are among the world’s top exporters of plastic waste. Most of what arrives in Asia is almost impossible to recycle.
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Plastic Atlas - Despite the hype, very little plastic is recycled in the USA. The US recycles less than one-tenth of the plastic waste it generates. Most goes into landfills.
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Plastic Atlas - In 2016, monthly exports of plastic trash to China exceeded 600 000 tonnes a month. By 2018, they had shriveled to less than 30 000 tonnes.
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Plastic Atlas - Recycling saves a large majority of the energy contained in plastic waste. That is not the case with incineration, where most of the energy is lost.
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Plastic Atlas - A broad spectrum of informal waste picking businesses exists. All rely on the processing and sale of waste as their basic source of income.
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Plastic Atlas - Germany and Denmark introduced taxes on plastic bags in the early 1990s. Since 2004, developing countries have introduced more restrictions.
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Plastic Atlas - The industrial world is the source of most plastic waste exports. The biggest importers are in Asia. Most waste consists of containers, films and sheets.
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Plastic Atlas - The informal sector plays a huge role in keeping mounds of rubbish under control, especially in cities with little recycling or waste disposal infrastructure.
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Plastic Atlas - For many of the poorest families in the developing world, their sole source of income comes from sorting waste and selling it to recycling firms.
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Plastic Atlas - Measures differ markedly: North America regulates microplastics, while many countries in Africa and Asia have banned plastic bags.
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Plastic Atlas - San Fernando counted the waste it generated each day. It used the data to design its Zero Waste programme —from reduction to improved waste separation.
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Plastic Atlas - Zero Waste concepts are spreading across the globe. Some local authorities have been fighting the plastic crisis since the start of the millennium.
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Plastic Atlas - More than 1,500 organizations around the world are members of Break Free From Plastic. Most of them are in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia.
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Plastic Atlas - In 2018, “brand audits” conducted by Break Free From Plastic collected a total of 187,851 pieces of plastic waste from locations around the world.
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Airbus A380 F-WWOW
by Clemens Vasters

German Consul General Dr Klinner and Hans Paschke visiting Engro Polymers with Wajid hussain Junejo
by Green Office Pakistan

German Consul General Dr Klinner and Hans Paschke visiting Engro Polymers with Wajid hussain Junejo
by Green Office Pakistan

German Consul General Dr Klinner and Hans Paschke visiting Engro Polymers with Wajid hussain Junejo
by Green Office Pakistan

German Consul General Dr Klinner and Hans Paschke visiting Engro Polymers with Wajid hussain Junejo
by Green Office Pakistan

German Consul General Dr Klinner and Hans Paschke visiting Engro Polymers with Wajid hussain Junejo
by Green Office Pakistan

German Consul General Dr Klinner and Hans Paschke visiting Engro Polymers with Wajid hussain Junejo
by Green Office Pakistan

German Consul General Dr Klinner and Hans Paschke visiting Engro Polymers with Wajid hussain Junejo
by Green Office Pakistan

German Consul General Dr Klinner and Hans Paschke visiting Engro Polymers with Wajid hussain Junejo
by Green Office Pakistan