Good News Notes: “Around the world, one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute. Half of that plastic produce is designed to be used only once, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. For Jason Dibble the plan to eliminate single-use plastic water bottles started out as an idea. “We are all on this planet…
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Japan, UNEP deepen cooperation on plastic pollution and post-conflict recovery
Good News Notes: “Japan and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced a new cooperative effort to tackle plastic pollution across Asia and support post-conflict environmental recovery in Iraq and South Sudan. Japan will contribute US$6.9 million to four UNEP-led projects. The bulk of the funding will fund a second phase of the CounterMEASURE project,…