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Why You Should Read CA’s ExxonMobil Plastic Lawsuit

Legal Planet

The document should be required reading for everyone from corporate marketers to policymakers to law students learning how to build a compelling narrative from complex facts. We make ungodly amounts of plastic each year and then toss it, mostly without care, so that it makes its way to our rivers and oceans.

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Easy Tips to Ease off Plastic

Academy of Natural Sciences

As a society, we’re addicted to plastic, but the good news is that we can choose to reduce our use so we can have cleaner streets, healthier wildlife and less polluted rivers and oceans. New Jersey’s law banning single-use plastic bags and foam containers takes effect May 22 and is one of the toughest laws of its kind in the country.

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A Plastic Economy: Is Recycling Broken?

HumanNature

Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Every minute, one garbage truck worth of plastic is dumped into our ocean. Between plastics and the health of our oceans? Guest Post by Mariel Price 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Why is that a problem? Well, plastics were built to last.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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A Sea Full of Trash: Tackling the Plastic Problem

Vermont Law

Junk can be found everywhere—from the bellies of animals and the tissues of our own bodies to the world’s vast oceans. . The first step toward keeping trash from entering the ocean is to reduce the amount created on land and repurpose what we chuck into trash bins. invented by Cesar Harada—could one day scour the ocean for trash.

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H&M Wins Dismissal of Greenwashing Lawsuit

Greenbuilding Law

Plaintiff alleges a fake circular economy when several products in the Conscious Choice line contain up to 100% polyester, a material that does not biodegrade and disperses microfibers into the environment, although H&M describes it as using polyester recycled from PET bottles.

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Opinion: The President’s Plastic Trigger

Circle of Blue

It took years of civic activism about the harm plastic causes to human health and the marine environment to convince Trump to sign the law, which helped prompt leaders of 175 nations to begin negotiating a treaty two years later to prevent plastic pollution. Most of this waste is carried to the ocean by rivers. By 2022, the U.S.