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Canada Agrees to Take Back Trash Sent to Philippines Years Ago

May 23, 2019JASON GUTIERREZComments Off on Canada Agrees to Take Back Trash Sent to Philippines Years Ago

The garbage, which was mistakenly shipped to the Philippines in 2013 and 2014, had been the subject of a diplomatic dispute and outrage from President Rodrigo Duterte.

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Philippines Sets Deadline for Canada to Take Back Trash

May 8, 2019JASON GUTIERREZComments Off on Philippines Sets Deadline for Canada to Take Back Trash

President Rodrigo Duterte demanded that tons of garbage mistakenly sent to his country be returned by May 15, threatening otherwise to dump it on Canada’s shore.

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Capri Dispatch: Capri Welcomes 2.3 Million Tourists a Year but Wants to Limit the Trash They Leave Behind

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019ROD NORDLANDComments Off on Capri Dispatch: Capri Welcomes 2.3 Million Tourists a Year but Wants to Limit the Trash They Leave Behind

Capri has decreed a ban on plastic and would like to limit boat traffic, too, in an effort to control those twin Italian ills: tourism and trash.

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After Duterte’s Threats Over Tons of Old Trash, Canada Says It’s Working on It

April 26, 2019April 27, 2019ALAN YUHASComments Off on After Duterte’s Threats Over Tons of Old Trash, Canada Says It’s Working on It

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines said he was ready to “declare war” with Canada over hundreds of tons of waste shipped to his country over five years ago.

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Whale Is Found Dead in Italy With 48 Pounds of Plastic in Its Stomach

April 2, 2019April 2, 2019ILIANA MAGRAComments Off on Whale Is Found Dead in Italy With 48 Pounds of Plastic in Its Stomach

The pregnant animal, which washed ashore in Sardinia, was the latest in a grim international collection of whale carcasses burdened by plastic trash.

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Gibraltar Bans Releasing of Helium-Filled Balloons to Protect Marine Wildlife

March 26, 2019March 27, 2019PALKO KARASZComments Off on Gibraltar Bans Releasing of Helium-Filled Balloons to Protect Marine Wildlife

The tiny British territory at the southern tip of Spain is the latest to take action against marine pollution.

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Dead Whale Found With 88 Pounds of Plastic Inside Body in the Philippines

March 18, 2019March 19, 2019DANIEL VICTORComments Off on Dead Whale Found With 88 Pounds of Plastic Inside Body in the Philippines

The whale’s grisly death renewed focus on the problem of plastics ending up in oceans. The Philippines is the third-biggest contributor of such waste.

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Russians, Feeling Poor and Protesting Garbage, Suffer Winter Blues

February 19, 2019February 19, 2019NEIL MacFARQUHARComments Off on Russians, Feeling Poor and Protesting Garbage, Suffer Winter Blues

Plans to ship Moscow’s trash to the provinces are aggravating economic unrest. Confidence in Russia’s direction and in President Vladimir V. Putin have dropped.

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210-Foot Fatberg Blocks Sewers of English Seaside Town

January 8, 2019ILIANA MAGRAComments Off on 210-Foot Fatberg Blocks Sewers of English Seaside Town

The water company in Sidmouth said the mass could have been growing for up to three years, fed on wet wipes and grease from fish and chips.

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It Took On the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Now It’s in Pieces.

January 3, 2019ERIC NAGOURNEYComments Off on It Took On the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Now It’s in Pieces.

A giant boom was dispatched to tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but the forces of nature may have been too much for it. Its inventors plan to try again.

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