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186 Countries Agree to Fight Plastic Pollution, New Form of Desalination, Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme

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13.05.2019
by Roxana Adam
Photo: Humphrey Muleba / Pexles (CC0)

186 countries agreed to amend the Basel Convention by adding thousands of types of plastic as hazardous waste; a team of researchers at Columbia University created a new desalination method called “temperature swing solvent extraction”; Scotland’s new deposit scheme will include aluminium and steel cans as well as containers made of glass and PET.

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13.05.2019
by Roxana Adam
Photo: Humphrey Muleba / Pexles (CC0)
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