Bangladesh's sprawling textile industry is spewing toxic wastewater into its rivers
Out of a total of 2,220 factories in Gazipur, only 556 have effluent treatment plants on paper.
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Out of a total of 2,220 factories in Gazipur, only 556 have effluent treatment plants on paper.
SHIMODA, Oct 31 — A boat’s crew casts a net into the seemingly clean waters off Japan’s Izu peninsula, but not to catch fish — they are scooping up microplastics to learn more about the pollution’s impact on marine life. Tiny floating fragments from plastic packaging, synthetic clothing...
Stockholm, Sweden, March 8, 2021 – A new study published by researchers at the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center found microplastics in 100 percent of samples taken from 50 iconic rivers, lakes and streams in Pennsylvania. The researchers described their finding as troubling and said “it’s clear that the scope of plastic pollution in Pennsylvania extends far beyond what was previously thought”. Dave Noble, spokesperson at Bluewater, a Swedish water company battling the need for single use plastic water bottles with innovative water tech and drinking bottle solutions, said the...