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''Heartbreaking'': Video Shows Shocking Amount Of Garbage Piling Up At Mount Everest Campsite
A distressing video has surfaced on Twitter that shows garbage, abandoned tents, and plastic waste thrown at a camp on Mount Everest.
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Woman Kills 3-Year-Old Daughter, Dumps Body In Garbage: Maharashtra Cops
A woman allegedly killed her three-year-old daughter, packed her body in a plastic bag and dumped it in a pile of garbage in Jawhar of Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Tuesday.
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Supplier Novares Seeks Damages From Carmakers Over Cancelled Orders
Novares, which makes plastic components used in one in three vehicles worldwide, is seeking compensation for the cancellations that have left its stocks piling up.
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Scientists to Harness the Sun to Break Down Plastic
Scientists said Wednesday they have come up with an environmentally-friendly method that uses artificial sunlight to transform plastic into power-generating chemicals, as countries worldwide battle to reduce waste.
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Scientists Look For Owner Of USB Drive Found In Leopard Seal's Poop
A pair of researchers in New Zealand made a surprising discovery several weeks ago while analyzing a pile of seal poop. Nestled inside one of the excrement samples was something unusually hard: a USB stick.
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As China Closes Door To Recycling, Trash Piles Up In US
For months, a major recycling facility for the greater Baltimore-Washington area has been facing a big problem: it has to pay to get rid of huge amounts of paper and plastic it would normally sell to China.
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Baby Turtle Poops Plastic After Swallowing It In The Ocean
A heartbreaking video released by an Australian zoo shows a pile of plastic next to a baby turtle that had swallowed it in the ocean. The turtle has been pooping out plastic, says the zoo. The video comes with a stern reminder from Perth Zoo: "reduce your use of plastic and dispose of it responsibly."
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Cyclone Ockhi Brought 80 Tonnes Plastic Debris On Coasts: Government
The recent Ockhi cyclone led to a piling up of 80 tonnes of plastic debris along the coasts of Kerala, Goa, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and particularly along the major beaches of Mumbai, the government said on Friday.
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Anger Piles Up On Vietnamese Poisoned Coast A Year After Spill
Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corp met with an accident. Within weeks of the incident more than 200 Kilometres of coast had been sullied by the accidental release of chemicals including cyanide and iron hydroxide.
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Pilgrims tackle plastic pile-up at Sabarimala
Almost all the pilgrims who go through the annual rituals of travelling to Sabarimala may have been stalled by the dam row this year. But for two city-based Ayyappa devotees, the plastic pile-up on Sabarimala is a more pressing issue. They have embarked on a 2,500-kilometre long padayatra that covers five states and is scheduled to last 80 days, to...
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''Heartbreaking'': Video Shows Shocking Amount Of Garbage Piling Up At Mount Everest Campsite
A distressing video has surfaced on Twitter that shows garbage, abandoned tents, and plastic waste thrown at a camp on Mount Everest.
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Woman Kills 3-Year-Old Daughter, Dumps Body In Garbage: Maharashtra Cops
A woman allegedly killed her three-year-old daughter, packed her body in a plastic bag and dumped it in a pile of garbage in Jawhar of Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Tuesday.
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Supplier Novares Seeks Damages From Carmakers Over Cancelled Orders
Novares, which makes plastic components used in one in three vehicles worldwide, is seeking compensation for the cancellations that have left its stocks piling up.
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Scientists to Harness the Sun to Break Down Plastic
Scientists said Wednesday they have come up with an environmentally-friendly method that uses artificial sunlight to transform plastic into power-generating chemicals, as countries worldwide battle to reduce waste.
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Scientists Look For Owner Of USB Drive Found In Leopard Seal's Poop
A pair of researchers in New Zealand made a surprising discovery several weeks ago while analyzing a pile of seal poop. Nestled inside one of the excrement samples was something unusually hard: a USB stick.
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As China Closes Door To Recycling, Trash Piles Up In US
For months, a major recycling facility for the greater Baltimore-Washington area has been facing a big problem: it has to pay to get rid of huge amounts of paper and plastic it would normally sell to China.
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Baby Turtle Poops Plastic After Swallowing It In The Ocean
A heartbreaking video released by an Australian zoo shows a pile of plastic next to a baby turtle that had swallowed it in the ocean. The turtle has been pooping out plastic, says the zoo. The video comes with a stern reminder from Perth Zoo: "reduce your use of plastic and dispose of it responsibly."
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Cyclone Ockhi Brought 80 Tonnes Plastic Debris On Coasts: Government
The recent Ockhi cyclone led to a piling up of 80 tonnes of plastic debris along the coasts of Kerala, Goa, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and particularly along the major beaches of Mumbai, the government said on Friday.
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Anger Piles Up On Vietnamese Poisoned Coast A Year After Spill
Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corp met with an accident. Within weeks of the incident more than 200 Kilometres of coast had been sullied by the accidental release of chemicals including cyanide and iron hydroxide.
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Pilgrims tackle plastic pile-up at Sabarimala
Almost all the pilgrims who go through the annual rituals of travelling to Sabarimala may have been stalled by the dam row this year. But for two city-based Ayyappa devotees, the plastic pile-up on Sabarimala is a more pressing issue. They have embarked on a 2,500-kilometre long padayatra that covers five states and is scheduled to last 80 days, to...
