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plastic bottles

Environment

Plastic bottles holding 2.3 litres are least harmful to the planet

Plastic bottles with a capacity of 2.3 litres contain the most liquid for the lowest packaging weight and could reduce plastic waste by thousands of tonnes per year

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Environment

Microplastics left in water are more easily absorbed by mouse cells

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Seesaw on Earth

Environment

Mass of artificial objects on Earth may now outweigh living things

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Emily Duncan releases a bottle

Environment

Plastic bottles dumped in rivers can travel thousands of kilometres

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Rubbish left on Mount Everest. Photo taken in 1993

Environment

Microplastic pollution discovered near the top of Mount Everest

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Sperm whales

Environment

Most whales and sea turtles seem to have plastic in their bodies

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washing machine drum

Environment

Washing our clothes has created 5.6 million tonnes of microfibre waste

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Environment

Blue jeans pollute water by releasing 50,000 microfibres per wash

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Earth

Lake Victoria is at risk of dying from pollution and climate change

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Ocean microfibre pollution

Environment

There might not be as many microplastic fibres in oceans as we feared

Most of the microfibres polluting oceans aren't plastic but cotton and wool, a study suggests, but these natural fibres could still be dangerous to sea life

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Environment

We may have missed half the microplastics in the ocean

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Life

Why bats and nocturnal animals hate light pollution?

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Environment

Microrobots made from pollen help remove toxic mercury from wastewater

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Environment

Leaked report says UK net zero climate goal may increase air pollution

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