It’s Plastic Free July, and it doesn’t take a lot to make a big change in your environmental impact. Bethany Daman from the Green Action Centre says it’s about being more conscious about your use.

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Plastic can take more than 1,000 years, or 100 decades, to decompose and break down. The plastic you throw away today will start to decompose in 3024. Unfortunately, much of this waste ends up in ...

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After several decades of steadily increasing our diet of single-use plastic, the world finds itself now drowning in waste that chokes waterways, sits in landfills and is ingested by wildlife. The ...

Plastic sneaks into our kitchens in a hundred quiet ways: the crinkly bag of salad, the cling film over leftovers, the glittery green sponge that sheds with every scrub. Bins fill, recycling boxes ...

Wrapping paper, packaging, plastic plates and cutlery — it all adds up. Here are some easy ways to avoid a nightmare around Christmas. The garbage bag of wrapping paper was as round as Santa’s belly.

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