Lidl will ban single-use plastic bags next year in a move which will boost the UK's war on carrier bags, which experts say damage the environment by polluting the world's oceans. From January 2017 the discount retailer has said it will no longer offer ...
JOHANNESBURG - Dramatic footage shot by Rhodes University student journalism group Oppidan Pressshows police confronting students at the institution, firing rubber bullets at them and dragging a protester on the ground. Officers opened fire on a group ...
Polyester and acrylic fabrics are used for all sorts of clothing, from dresses to gymwear. But they could be leaching upward of 700,000 tiny plastic fibers into the environment for each 13 lb load of laundry washed, according to new research from ...
MANKWENG - Police have opened fire with rubber bullets on students at the University of Limpopo where demonstrators have barricaded the roads around the Turfloop campus as part of the #FeesMustFall demonstrations. Two more students have been ...
As impossible as it is to imagine a world without plastic waste, we just got a little bit closer to that reality as France has set a 2020 deadline to ban plastic cutlery unless it's made from biodegradable material. The ban makes France the first ...
