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Topic: plastic pollution (page 2)

Babies on a petri dish (Getty Images)

A male infertility crisis is looming

Matthew Rozsa
Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

100 companies make 90% of plastic waste

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic pollution in the ocean (Getty Images)

Plastic pollution threatens civilization

Matthew Rozsa
White plastic bag caught up in branches and billowing in the breeze. Plastic bags are wind-distributed, which explains why they are widespread in the London (UK) countryside. (Getty Images/Whiteway)

Hope for a plastic-free world

Nicole Karlis
A seagull struggles to take flight covered by a plastic bag, on the seashore at Caleta Portales beach in Valparaiso, Chile on July 17, 2018. (Getty/CLAUDIO REYES)

Plastic debris gets in seabirds' blood

Nicole Karlis
A volunteer of the NGO 'Canarias Libre de Plasticos' (Canary Islands free of plastics) carries out a collection of microplastics and mesoplastic debris to clean the Almaciga Beach, on the north coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife, on July 14, 2018. (Getty/DESIREE MARTIN)

Microplastics leaching into food systems

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Annabelle500)

Plastic, not oil, is killing whales

Nicole Karlis
Algae floats on the surface of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Climate change is destroying our lakes

Matthew McCandless
(Getty/uwimages)

How plastic pollution is killing whales

Nicole Karlis
(Shutterstock)

Is the straw ban a green gateway drug?

Shannon Osaka - Grist
(Larry Benvenuti/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

Sea turtles offer dire warning

Dahr Jamail - Truthout
(Getty/kotangens)

Attack of the plastic eaters!

Diane Stopyra
(Tom Grundy/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Rich Carey/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(The Ocean Cleanup)

Lindsay Abrams
(antoniomas/Shutterstock)

NYC's Plastic Bag Scourge

Lindsay Abrams
(Nicram Sabad/Shutterstock)

Missouri's bad bag ban ban

Lindsay Abrams
(Fabien Monteil/Shutterstock)

Plastic pollution run amok

Lindsay Abrams
(Screenshot, Vimeo)

Lindsay Abrams
(Rich Carey/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Dmytro Pylypenko/Shutterstock)

500 sea lions found dead

Lindsay Abrams
(woodleywonderworks via Flickr)

Salon Staff
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Plastic waste should be banned

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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