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Plastic producers should ‘pay for the damage they’ve caused’ after decades of deception, the report's authors say. ADVERTISEMENTRecycling has been promoted as a solution to plastic waste management for more than 50 years.But big oil companies and the plastics industry have known for decades that it’s not a technical...

Researchers cut their bottled water use after shocking discovery of a quarter of a million tiny plastic pieces per litre. ADVERTISEMENTThe average litre of bottled water has nearly a quarter of a million pieces of microplastics and tiny, invisible nanoplastics, new research has found. These have been detected and ca...