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This year’s summer of record-breaking, extreme heat set another milestone Monday when a buoy in Manatee Bay just off the coast southwestern Florida registered an ocean temperature of 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit. The latest readings continue a month-long trend of bath-like ocean temperatures in Florida waters that can have potentially devastating effects on plant and animal life.
Published: - Mar 10, 2021 Did you know that, on average, a woman is expected to use approximately 16,000 or more tampons or pads in her lifetime? If we take this sum for years, it translates to 7 billion tampons and pads that end up in the disposal areas as plastic waste. The Woman Post | Catalina Mejía Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio tag. Therefore, we could say that each woman produces 200 kg that ends up in landfills throughout her life. The bitter cup of this pollution is that sanitary ware is made mostly of single-use plastics and cotton, for ...