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

13.05.2019

by Roxana Adam

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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