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A Melville plastic bag maker plans to lay off 146 ... The layoffs would leave just 31 workers on the Island. The business in the filing said it was laying off staff because its lease at ...

A two-day cleaning drive has been conducted on Saint Martin's Island by the Department of Environment and Bangladesh Sustainable Alliance (BSA), collecting 930kg of plastic waste. A nine-month ban ...

Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings a calm ... and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish, by weight, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

The Ministry of Science and Technology has joined forces with the Zero Plastic Movement, Sri Lanka’s largest environmental initiative. The partnership aims to drive innovation and empower communities ...

While this waste is spread fairly throughout the entire ocean system, much of it ends up clustered in vast plastic islands. Dr Garrard says: 'The worst hotspots for plastic are coastal areas ...