World entangled in plastic waste catastrophe
World Wide Fund for Nature’s report says since the year 2000, the world has used more plastics than in all the years before.
5 Mar 2019
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World Wide Fund for Nature’s report says since the year 2000, the world has used more plastics than in all the years before.
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