How One Person Changes the World
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Posted on May 2, 2019

Do you sometimes feel like you can not make a difference? Like you are just a single small piece of the world? Here is some evidence to show you that it’s not true. 1979 the 16-year old Jadev Payeng was making a horrible discovery. While he was making a walk, he found hundreds of dead reptiles and snakes. What caused the death? A water shortage and the lack of shading trees. The landscape had a barren ground and the probability for plants to grow was very low…
Read MoreA Brazilian Couple Restore A Destroyed Forest
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Posted on April 30, 2019

At a time when it is said to us that we only have 11 years to prevent irreversible damages to our planet because of climate change, this kind of story is heart-warming. After returning from Rwanda to document the atrocities happening there, Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was devastated when he saw what deforestation had done to his homeland. The thriving wildlife that inhabited this forest was now completely gone, just like the trees…
Read MoreThe Tinder Tree
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Posted on April 15, 2019

Once upon a time, people were used to sending love letters manually written…
Read More#TRASHCHALLENGE: The Safe And Clean Challenge
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Posted on March 18, 2019
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Initially launched in 2015, this new #Trashchallenge has seen an explosion only this year at the beginning of March.All around the world people, especially younger ones, are challenging themselves and friends to clean up the litter in some areas of their cities…
Read MoreDecline Plastic Waste In The North Sea
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Posted on March 1, 2019

The number of plastic bags in the North Sea has declined. According to researchers from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the number of plastic bags has decreased since 2010. The waste in the North Sea was researched. It was found that the amount of plastic waste is relatively low. This is due to the introduction of the ban on free plastic bags by several European countries. This ban has ensured that fewer people use plastic bags, which means less plastic waste in the sea…
Read MoreBritish Environment Secretary Launches New Waste Strategy
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Posted on February 28, 2019

The British Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Michael Gove published the policy paper Resources and waste strategy for England in December last year. Gove’s aim is to completely modify the waste system and reduce plastic packaging. Tax for the use of plastics The manufacturers of plastic packaging are at risk of paying the full costs of the waste of the plastic packaging they produce. Moreover, the government will support households to recycle their waste…
Read MoreA Multinational Company Cleans The Thames River In London
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Posted on February 27, 2019

The world's biggest furniture retail company launches boats to clean the polluted rivers in London. The Swedish furniture retail company's latest innovation is called 'The Good Ship'. These boats clean the polluted waters in the south of London from plastic and other rubbish. The Good Ship’s design and functions were inspired by the SMÅKRYP, a toy boat for bathtubs. The boats are around 30 meters and 70 kilograms each…
Read MoreItaly Bans Plastic Cotton Buds
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Posted on February 19, 2019

Italy is the first country in the world to introduce a ban on plastic cotton buds. Italy implemented this policy after the shocking results of a recent study by Environmental Association Legambiente in which was found that more than 9% of the waste on the Italian beaches consists of cotton swabs…
Read MoreOzone Layer Is Recovering
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Posted on February 11, 2019

A newly published report by the United Nations, the European Union, and NASA predicts the upper ozone layer above the Northern Hemisphere to be fully recovered by 2030 and the hole in the ozone layer above the South Pole to be completely disappeared by the year 2060. Last century, news about a hole in the ozone layer shocked the world in the early 1980s. Following this global environmental problem, the Montreal Protocol was introduced…
Read MoreEstonia: the free public transport country
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Posted on February 8, 2019

Tallinn was the first European city to offer free public transport services for all citizens in 2013. More regions in Estonia established the idea over the years. Nearly all regions in Estonia offer free public transport at the moment. This was decided to solve several problems: to stop the big numbers of people moving into the big cities and to reduce pollution. Eleven out of the fifteen Estonian regions became part of the plan…
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