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Polishing off Plastic Pollution?
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Polishing off Plastic Pollution?

Polishing off Plastic Pollution? “There’s a great future in plastics.” The iconic line, advice to a fresh-from-college ingenue played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 film The Graduate, was intended for laughs. But in 2023, it highlights a grim reality. The world’s economies generate roughly 400 million tons of plastic waste each year. And only nine percent...

Climate change: global steel industry needs ‘rapid action’ to end coal use, reach net zero emissions by early 2040s, study says
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Climate change: global steel industry needs ‘rapid action’ to end coal use, reach net zero emissions by early 2040s, study says

It is feasible to phase out coal in steelmaking by 2043 to 2045 without ‘premature shutdowns’ of plants, report by Agora Industry and Wuppertal Institute saysTechnologies required to reach net zero in steelmaking are available, but governments and firms need to join hands to deploy them quickly, Agora’s Frank Peter saysThe global steel industry can...