News – Plastic (defunct)

Until April 2019, AWARE-Ontario.ca maintained a separate news category for plastic.  Afterall, plastic was separated from the waste stream and warranted special handling and new technologies.  Then the unthinkable.  When China refused to accept garbage from other countries as at January 1, 2018 (article) and then Filipino President Duterte (article) demanded that Canada take back 130 shipping containers of trash, the decades-long con began to unravel.

So to get the big picture, AO consolidated reporting under AO Waste Management News.

NEWS – Plastic (reverse chronological order)

Date	Source	Title	Comment
2019-04-24	CBC News	Canada says fix for garbage spat with Philippines on its way	Catharine Tunney
2019-01-02	CBC News	The Great Lakes are full of microfibres — but there might be an easy solution	Kate McGillivray
2018-12-19	EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow	World’s First Ocean Cleanup System Isn’t Yet Doing Its Job	Lorraine Chow - Boyan Slat AO Info: Water
2018-12-03	EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow	Australia Cuts 80% of Plastic Bag Use in 3 Short Months	Lorraine Chow
2018-11-12	Theguardian.com (UK)	Opinion: I collected my plastic waste for a year, and learned the truth about recycling	Daniel Webb
2018-08-23	Financial Post	Sponsored News:  Ontario company looking to bring new recycling technology to North America	BBL Energy Inc. - pyrolysis
2018-08-02	EcoWatch / Olivia Rosane	Study Finds New Reason to Ban Plastic: It Emits Methane in the Sun	Olivia Rosane
2018-07-09	The Guardian	The man who paves India’s roads with old plastic	Kamala Thiagarajan
2018-06-28	EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow	12-Year-Old Girl Invents Plastic-Detecting Robot to Save Our Oceans	Lorraine Chow
2018-03-22	Yahoo.com	Pacific plastic dump far larger than feared: study	Patrick Galey and Marlowe Hood
2018-03-15	The Guardian	WHO launches health review after microplastics found in 90% of bottled water	Graham Readfearn AO Info: Bulk Water
2018-03-12	The Guardian	Microplastic pollution in oceans is far worse than feared, say scientists	Damian Carrington
2018-03-06	Youtube / Guardian News	“So much plastic!”: British diver films deluge of waste off Bali	Guardian News
2018-01-02	Theguardian.com	Rubbish already building up at UK recycling plants due to China import ban	Matthew Taylor AO Info: China
2018-01-24	Huffington Post	China No Longer Wants Your Trash. Here's Why That's Potentially Disastrous.	Dominique Mosbergen
2017-05-24	Youtube / United Nations	Plastic Ocean (8 mins)	United Nations

Other information:

- Five Ocean Gyres (www.5gyres.org) studying plastic pollution in the oceans.  The oceans are downstream from everywhere.

Want good news?  Check out “plastic waste roads” on Youtube.com

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