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Oct 17, 2019 · Afroz Shah led the clean up of Mumbai’s Versova Beach, which grew to 200,000 volunteers strong. Now, he’s mobilizing a new generation on his mission to fight plastic pollution in the ocean.
- Kathleen Toner
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Jul 23, 2024 · “We're excited about this process because it converts plastics pollution that people work hard to sort at the curb, and ... it helps to decarbonize our steel industry,” Shah said.
Jun 9, 2024 · Plastic became ingrained in modern life in large part because the plastics industry started working in the 1950s to convince people to embrace the material as cheap,...
- Michael Copley
May 16, 2024 · The United Nations (UN) recognizes the urgency of addressing plastic pollution through its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, progress toward achieving SDGs related to plastic consumption, especially in the South Asian region, remains uncertain.
Oct 19, 2023 · Plastics revolutionized medicine with life-saving devices, made space travel possible, lightened cars and jets—saving fuel and lessening pollution —and saved lives with helmets, incubators, and equipment for clean drinking water.
May 29, 2011 · Plastics freed us from the confines of the natural world, from the material constraints and limited supplies that had long bounded human activity. That new elasticity unfixed social...
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Jan 11, 2018 · In little more than a century, plastic has gone from being hailed as a scientific wonder to being reviled as an environmental scourge. It was in 1907 that the first modern plastic, bakelite,...
