Pocket Archive: Pollution, Waste & Toxins

These spiritual stones purportedly help people connect with the Earth, but few sellers will say where on Earth their products are from.

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No, there isn’t a pile of tires on fire nearby; what you smell is smoke from the wildfires

That extra cost is probably worth it.

Nature - No mass strandings since sonar ban

What if the #1 reason why tobacco caused cancer was actually a hidden radioactive element, and that the tobacco industry covered it up for decades?

Canada needs more transparency and better enforcement to protect Canadians from unlimited exposure to toxic chemicals like lead and cadmium, an analysis from Environmental Defence said Wednesday.

Policy failure and a lack of enforcement have left our waterways and farmland vulnerable to ‘forever chemicals’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

As long as we keep accumulating raw materials, the closing of the material life cycle remains an illusion, even for materials that are, in principle, recyclable.

Companies accused of “zero progress” on reducing plastic waste, with Coca-Cola ranked No 1 for most littered products

H&M, Mars and Unilever also promise to eliminate single-use plastics

Plastic items such as cutlery and straws would be banned in the EU under plans approved by MEPs.

Demand for bitcoin could single-handedly derail efforts to limit global warming because the increasingly popular digital currency takes huge amounts of energy to produce, scientists say.

Oil and gas companies make far more money churning out new plastic than reusing old. Meanwhile, the public gets the blame, writes Arwa Mahdawi

A rocket launch can generate between 50 and 100 times more C02 emissions than a long airplane flight. Here’s what a space tourism industry could mean for our planet — and for climate ch…