Waste and Recycling
Bottled water: health hero or environmental villain?
Last summer I spent some time in Amalfi, a Mediterranean town in southern Italy so beautiful people having been visiting since the days of Ancient Rome.
One warm afternoon I was sitting on the steps of the fountain in the central square, people watching. The cafés around me were crowded with tourists and a band was playing sentimental Italian songs. Every now and then, a couple would jump up from their table and start to dance across the square.
‘Urgent measures’ needed to tackle microplastic pollution
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) has warned ‘urgent measures’ are needed to tackle microplastic particle pollution.
A new report by the CIWEM has found new report has found more than half of all microplastic particles stay trapped in the soil and in freshwater environments, even when the particles are washed from road surfaces.
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