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… record heat along with piecemeal developments at U.N. summits on  climate ,  biodiversity and  plastic pollution . He noted  Donald Trump's election and his pledges to ramp up oil and gas … Catholic Climate Covenant; participate in boycotts; start community organizations to eliminate plastic use; and raise awareness about what's happening to the Earth. Even a small group meeting …

… columns and theological essays with letters that have been edited for length and clarity. Plastic production key issue My thanks to Earthbeat reporter Brian Roewe for his informative, concise account of the as of yet failed worldwide negotiations on our plastics problem (Earthbeat,  Dec. 5, 2024 ).  I am especially grateful for his separating the …

… its bondage to decay. I see the Earth's shores littered with the wastes of our consumer lives: plastic bottles, cups and other containers; discarded clothes; piles of electronic trash; dying … countries where we can't see it?  Recycling is not solving the problem. Only about 10% of the plastic we use is ever recycled. Yet, we keep manufacturing it and using it for multiple … our community on environmentally friendly products and produce, the need for alternatives to plastic use and fossil fuels, the importance of biodiversity in our environment, and integral …

… at a pivotal juncture for the planet. … Mixed international progress on biodiversity, climate, plastic pollution … The  climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan , were one of several major … nations convened in late November aiming to  finalize the first-ever global treaty to reduce plastic pollution . The biodiversity summit  made some progress . The climate negotiations  set a new finance target to support developing countries. And the plastic treaty talks  punted a final deal to 2025 . In each case, Catholic officials were on the …

… The tankers lay to my right, but also surrounding me were mounds of debris, shredded pieces of plastic covering trees on the riverbank, piles of uncoiled wire weaving in and out of snapped …

… streets and visit churches on Christmas Eve to celebrate. Catholics decorate their homes with plastic Christmas trees, Nativity scenes, lanterns, stars and other festive ornaments. Our Lady …

… in Busan, South Korea, for the expected final round of negotiations on a treaty addressing plastic pollution, Boston College held a conference of its own on the topic. "The purpose of this conference is to look at the global plastics crisis through the lens of ethics and morality," Dr. Philip Landrigan, director of the … harms is an almost exponential and still accelerating increase in global plastic production. Plastics' harms are further magnified by low rates of recovery and recycling and by the long …

… Brian Roewe … Days after talks on a new international treaty to curb plastic pollution collapsed, Sr. Patty Johnson was nonetheless feeling hopeful. Johnson was in … the fifth — and expected final — round of United Nations negotiations for a global deal on plastics. In her time there, she attended plenary sessions, reviewed draft texts and conversed …

… to recycle water. Organizers are working to make all intra-garden transport electric. Plastic is banned within the garden. The goal of the project "is to share with as many people as …

… is all recycled." Living Lands & Waters' crew and volunteers have pulled millions of pounds of plastics from America's rivers. Finding a facility to process the large, bulky, rigid plastics for recycling was a huge challenge. That reality and the discovery that 43% of all … Current Solutions. The certified women-owned and managed business manufactures 100% recycled plastic pallets. Father Ken Kuntz, former diocesan administrator of the Davenport Diocese, wrote …

… the harm … About 60% of fast-fashion items are made from synthetic textiles derived from plastics and chemicals that start their life as fossil fuels. When this synthetic clothing is …

… can be confused with glistening white stones or animal bones. Soon, I spotted the telltale plastic bottles, emptied of water or electrolytes, strewn across the desert floor, the human …

… known as the smile: "the distant smile / a cool smile / a hesitant little smile / that plastic smile / a bleak smile / a sour smile / a slow smile / the small smile" and the list goes …

… Georgia; Izzy Ross, regional reporter, Great Lakes … Your trash … Some 33 billion pounds of plastic waste enter the marine environment globally every year, and the problem is expected to worsen as the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries ramp up plastic production. Perhaps the most important step the next president could take to curb plastic pollution is to push Congress to ratify and implement the United Nations' global plastics treaty , which is scheduled to be finalized by the end of this year. The Biden …

… Bangladesh, though he employs a different base material to form his floating beds: empty plastic bottles, which he ties together to form a platform he then covers in water hyacinth. … to use the rotting hyacinth to fertilize other crops — this approach allows him to reuse the plastic bases to grow new gardens for several years. He borrowed 20,000 taka (US$167) to build …

… will convene in South Korea for the fifth and final round of negotiations on a global plastic pollution treaty. Scientists have stated global emissions need to decline by 43% over the …

… Mayol Kuot said his church has been actively providing essential supplies such as shovels, plastic sheets, sandbags and digging bars to fortify the dikes around the villages, particularly …

… (Sept. 23) — not over the oil giant's contribution to climate change, but over its role in the plastic pollution crisis. The attorney general's lawsuit, filed in the San Francisco County … the petrochemical industry's "decades-long deception campaign" over the sustainability of plastics and the feasibility of plastics recycling. Drawing on documents subpoenaed from Exxon …

… of the ways we as a human race abuse Sister Water through overuse; the pollution caused by plastics and chemicals; the heating of the oceans through global warming. I then imagined all the …

… and shipment and heightened production output. The industry is also a  major contributor to plastic pollution and water pollution. Though data is lacking on the exact size of the fashion …