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Rubbish roads: Nepal explores paving with plastic

Cars speeding along a smooth, black-coloured street in Nepal’s Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic, transformed into an ingredient in road construction. Nepal’s urban areas generate about…

Age of plastic

IN the iconic coming-of-age film The Graduate (1967), Dustin Hoffman’s young character, freshly graduated from college, is pulled aside at a party by an acquaintance who bluntly offers him a…

Plastic plague

OUR planet is drowning in plastic. The convenient, cheap and durable nature of plastic has led to its massive production and consumption over the last 70 years. With 9.2 billion…

Pakistan’s plastic paradox

“Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest,” says American oceanographer Charles Moore, who is famous for bringing the world’s attention to the Great Garbage Patch – a vast…

Our planet is choking on plastic

According to the UNEP, 3.3 million tons of plastic waste is produced in Pakistan each year. 250 million tons of garbage consists of plastic bottles, pet bottles and food scraps…

Plastic planet

It’s summer again in the Northern Hemisphere and with it comes the seasonal dread that grows worse each year. Dread of weather so severe it might make us sick or…

The plastic pandemic

If plastic use were a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, just after China, the US, India and Russia. Plastic has become…

Beat plastic

World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5 to remind the world about the various dangers of environmental degradation faced by our planet. The day also tries to…

Plastic plague

OUR planet is drowning in plastic. The convenient, cheap and durable nature of plastic has led to its massive production and consumption over the last 70 years. With 9.2 billion…