Trexlertown’s Air Products continues to show its global scale, this time as a partner in a $5 billion green fuel plant that will be developed in an in-progress futuristic city in Saudi Arabia that aims to be a model for urban sustainability. Air Products on Tuesday announced an agreement for the green hydrogen-based ammonia production …
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On the 30th June 2020, 1,900 young people joined together at the Virtual Youth Summit in India to celebrate their completion of the Tide Turners Plastic Challenge in India. The challenge is a global initiative to educate young people about plastic pollution. It is developed by the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Clean Seas Campaign, …
Plastic became widely used in the 1960s, with societies embracing the disposable lifestyle that offered them convenience and saved time. Decades later, our dependence on plastic has become problematic. Our use has increased exponentially, with 2.3 million tons being produced in 1950, 162 million in 1993, to 448 million in 2015. A vast amount of plastic …
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Carlsberg and Coca-Cola back pioneering project to make ‘all-plant’ drinks bottles Beer and soft drinks could soon be sipped from “all-plant” bottles under new plans to turn sustainably grown crops into plastic in partnership with major beverage makers. A biochemicals company in the Netherlands hopes to kickstart investment in a pioneering project that hopes to …
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A catastrophic loss in biodiversity, reckless destruction of wildland and warming temperatures have allowed disease to explode. Ignoring the connection between climate change and pandemics would be “dangerous delusion,” one scientist said. The scientists who study how diseases emerge in a changing environment knew this moment was coming. Climate change is making outbreaks of disease …
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