by Miquéla Thornton | 19 Jan 2024 | Environment, Student Posts, University of Wisconsin, Youth Voices
Making sure wealthy countries can’t dump their plastic waste on poor nations is important. But how can we stop producing it in the first place? A man walks on a mountain of plastic bottles as he carries a sack of them to be sold for recycling after weighing them...
by Preety Sharma | 9 Jan 2024 | Economy, Environment, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows
The global toy industry has a plastics predicament: How to feed children’s appetite for new toys, keep prices low and not harm the Earth in the process. A pile of plastic toys at a toy landfill. (Illustration by News Decoder) Plastic is omnipresent in our lives...
