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Minamata Convention COP-5 takes crucial steps in its mission of eliminating mercury pollution

Among the decisions made at COP-5, Parties defined new dates to phase out mercury-added products including cosmetics, strengthened ties with Indigenous Peoples, advanced the first effectiveness evaluation of the Convention, and reached an agreement on a threshold for mercury waste.
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In a Global Emergency, Do We Really Need More Fashion?

Https://youtu.be/uyHgY2O__fY Ecowatch: Deep in the Atacama Desert of Chile, new dunes are forming — not of sand, but of last year’s unsold clothing from around the world. Piled high atop the previous year’s fast fashion casualties and unpurchased lines of clothes, the garments are usually filled with toxins and dyes and do not biodegrade. The result: a…
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Older Electronic Items Degrade and Contribute to Worrying Amount of Harmful E-waste

According to a new study, consumers who were warned that not recycling their batteries "risked contaminating the equivalent of 140 Olympic swimming pools per year" were more inclined to engage in an electronic trash recycling plan.
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