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What is the starting point for improving our environment? Is it to highlight the positives; the good things that the environment does for us? Or is it to focus on negatives; the stories of the harm we are doing to it (and the harm it will, and is, doing to us through lack of action)? Of course, we need both.

Plastic microbeads found in products like shower gel and toothpaste should be banned as part of a wider effort to curb marine pollution caused by microplastics, according to a select committee.