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Hong Kong's single-use plastics ban off to smooth start
South China Morning Post, Published on 22/04/2024
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's single-use plastics ban started smoothly on Monday, with many people in a busy business district opting for their own utensils when buying takeaway food and drink instead of paying extra for alternatives.
Hong Kong restaurants ready for disposable plastics ban
South China Morning Post, Published on 14/03/2024
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong restaurants are ready for next month's ban on throwaway plastic tableware but are concerned about the costs of shifting to wooden and paper alternatives, catering sector representatives have said.
Endangered Galapagos tortoises suffer from human waste: study
AFP, Published on 09/11/2023
» QUITO - Endangered giant Galapagos tortoises continue to swallow plastic and other human waste despite a ban on disposable plastic items in the Ecuadoran archipelago, according to a study published Wednesday.
Jumbo problem: Sri Lanka's battle with plastic pollution
AFP, Published on 27/06/2023
» HORANA (SRI LANKA) - Heart-wrenching images of revered elephants and cattle eating plastic in Sri Lanka have prompted politicians to toughen pollution laws, but sceptical conservationists warn past bans were repeatedly ignored.
Video of drone encounter shows Russia ‘flat-out lying’
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/03/2023
» The Biden administration released dramatic footage of an encounter between Russian fighter jets and an American surveillance drone as the United States sought to show that Russia was lying with claims that its warplane never hit the US aircraft.
After spy balloon incident, can China and the US talk again?
Reuters, Published on 12/02/2023
» When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken this month called off his trip to Beijing, he chose his words carefully. China's launch of a spy balloon on a high-altitude journey over the United States was unacceptable and irresponsible, he said, but he was postponing - not cancelling - his visit.
UN takes 'historic' step toward global treaty on plastic trash
AFP, Published on 03/03/2022
» NAIROBI - The United Nations on Wednesday agreed to start negotiating a world-first global treaty on plastic pollution in what has been hailed as a watershed moment for the planet.
World must work together to tackle plastic ocean threat: WWF
AFP, Published on 08/02/2022
» PARIS: Plastic has infiltrated all parts of the ocean and is now found "in the smallest plankton up to the largest whale" wildlife group WWF said on Tuesday, calling for urgent efforts to create an international treaty on plastics.
A drought-hit California town finds itself sinking into the ground
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» CORCORAN (UNITED STATES) - "You've got too many farmers pumping all around," complained Raul Atilano. This octogenarian resident of Corcoran, the self-proclaimed farming capital of California, was struggling to make sense of the strangest of phenomena: his already suffering town is sinking, ever so gradually, into the ground.
Hong Kong to ban plastic cutlery at restaurants in four years
South China Morning Post, Published on 11/07/2021
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong restaurants will have to provide more eco-friendly tableware and customers may need to bring their own containers for takeaway meals under a government proposal to eventually ban disposable plastic items.