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EDITORS DESK Environment writers have been calling out the attention of authorities and our country’s leaders to look into the plastic pollution crisis that is now happening. This is an inevitable outcome of a long pandemic that relied on plastics, especially single-use plastics, to protect us...

In an effort to combat the worldwide plastic crisis, the French government has issued new regulations limiting the use of single-use plastic in the country. Plastic is now banned as packaging for selling leeks, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, apples, pears, and 30 other food items. Recyclable...

The amount of plastic that has been produced since the 1950s is equivalent to the weight of one billion elephants. Today, the plastic crisis has reached the point where everyone is already consuming and inhaling microplastic particles. The main contributors of the worsening plastic waste pollution,...