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jueves, 26 de abril de 2018

From birth to ban: A history of the plastic shopping bag

UN Environment

A rare novelty in the 1970s, plastic shopping bags are now an omnipresent global product, produced at a rate of one trillion a year. They are showing up in the darkest depths of the oceansto the summit of Mount Everest to the polar ice caps – and creating some major environmental challenges.
How did this happen?