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Race to Busan: The last stretch for the global plastics treaty 🏁
The fifth and final round of Plastics Treaty talks pick back up in November and it’s going to be down to the wire.
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Plastic Free July is a waste of time if the onus is only on consumers
Every year, the Plastic Free July campaign asks us to refuse single-use plastic but Governments, manufacturers and retailers need to get serious about tackling this problem.
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Plastic Free July: A billion single-use plastic bottles fill Eden Park
This CGI video released for Plastic Free July shows what the 1 billion plastic bottles sold every year in Aotearoa would look like if it was poured into Eden Park Stadium.
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A billion plastic bottles fill Eden Park stadium for Plastic Free July
To mark the start of Plastic Free July, Greenpeace has released a startling video showing Auckland’s iconic Eden Park stadium filled with around a billion single-use plastic bottles.
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Most plastics are made from fossil fuels and end up in the ocean, but marine microbes can’t degrade them
Victor Gambarini, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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It’s all thanks to you
Greenpeace Aotearoa is completely independent. In this issue of Kākāriki, you will read about more of the incredible campaign work you have made possible over the last few months.
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Ottawa plastic treaty talks end in weak compromise
The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC4) for a Global Plastics Treaty ended on a disappointing note as the negotiation caved-in to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry
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4 false solutions that won’t solve the plastic pollution crisis
Plastic pollution has managed to invade even the most remote areas of our environment and has also been reported in several tissues of the human body.
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Just 56 multinationals are responsible for more than half of the world’s plastic pollution – Coca-Cola is the worst
A new study has shown that just 56 big multinationals are responsible for more than half of the world’s plastic pollution, with six responsible for a quarter of that, based…
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Greenpeace ramps up pressure on UN delegates to cut plastic production, by delivering a “Global Plastics Factory”
OTTAWA —As a new day of negotiations begins at the fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) in Ottawa, Greenpeace Canada delivered a 20-foot “Global Plastics Factory” to the doorstep of the Shaw Center
