Plastics in Oceans: More Damaging Than Climate Change The United Nations estimates that each one of us uses nearly 140 kilograms of plastic each year. At least 6.4 million metric tons of that plastic has ended up in the oceans. Environmental activist...
Its amazing to think there wasnt any plastic one hundred years ago. Now its everywhere. Almost everything thats made has some plastic in it. Whoever invented it must be really rich. There are all kinds of plastic. Its pretty useful stuff. I once went...
China is taking action to curb plastic bag litter. Soon, free shopping bags will be a thing of the past. 中国正在采取行动减少遍地是塑料袋垃圾的现象。不久，免费提供购物袋的现象将会成为历史。 Starting June 1, s...
If you're a home gardener you may soon find that the pots you buy flowers and plants in are made from chicken feathers. Yes, tons of feathers that go to waste every year can now be transformed into plastics. Two Washington-area scientists are using f...
Thin plastic bags are the ultimate throwaway item. Used once to tote groceries, the thin white bags often go on to second lives as permanent pollution and an eyesore. So a host of countries, cities and other governments have banned them or forced con...
Plastic Pollution NB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript Dan: Hello and welcome 6 Minute English from the BBC. Im Dan Walker Smith and today Im joined by Kate. Kate: Hello Dan. Dan: Now today Kate and I are talking about pollution. Kate...
Todd: What do you think about plastic surgery - you know, like, especially lip implants, breast implants? Wendi: Yeah, absolutely. I would be like, maybe like four years ago, I was like, No if you do that kind of thing you are so vain. That's so not...
The United Nations reports significant progress has been made in providing assistance to hundreds of thousands of quake victims in Haiti. A senior U.N. official says the relief operation is being scaled up on all levels, with shelter topping the list...
By Robert Raffaele Washington, DC 12 February 2008 Tests on several plastic baby bottles have found they emit very significant levels of a chemical linked to deadly illnesses in laboratory animals. That is according to a new report released by Americ...
By Ted Landphair Washington 09 August 2007 Every day, American consumers are offered a simple choice when they areby a store's cashier: paper or plastic? But as VOA's Ted Landphair explains in today's searching for solutions report, some communities...
