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Plastic-Eating Fungus Found in Amazon Brings New Hope
Plastic. It floods the oceans, strangles marine life and sullies our streets. When burnt, it spits out toxic chemicals into the atmosphere in gargantuan quantities, and its petrochemical construction means it doesn’t like to decompose. Yet it is a global addiction, as presently around 100 million tonnes (500,000 whopping blue whales) of the stuff is…
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Chickens Set to Save the Planet
If one were to say which animal had made the greatest contribution to humanity, it would do justice to give a moments thought to the humble chicken. For this ubiquitous culinary bird has created legend in french patisseries, given gusto to the breakfast ritual, and united fussy eaters at luncheons across the globe. And when…
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Perverse Plastic Party
Plastic homes, plastic food, plastic pets, plastic entertainment – well not quite, but plastic appreciation, or its continual manufacture in today’s society, is undeniable, even manic. Even in the magical art form of music, plastic is rife, with human’s bellowing either its praise or damnation from back street balconies, dark recording studios, or showers. Fake…
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Bank Tycoon Sails Pacific on Plastic Bottle Raft
Ocean-bound on a synthetic organic adventure, bank heir David de Rothschild and two grandchildren of the late Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl (of Kon-Tiki fame), have set sail across the wild seas on a self-constructed plastic bottle raft. The mission, which is an environmental statement opposing the mass of waste found in our oceans, is currently…
