The environmental impact of plastic is resulting in the creation of new ways to reduce its impact through the use of deposit schemes and the development of alternative packaging materials.
BBC Click’s Lara Lewington finds out more.
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Australian footballer Josh Cavallo has come out as gay, making him the only current top level male professional player in the world to do so. The Adelaide United player told BBC World News’ Yalda Hakim that the decision to make the announcement took a long time. “There was over six years of pain,” he said,…
Reality television show Married At First Sight Australia has become an unexpected success in the UK during the coronavirus lockdown. Despite originally airing in Australia in 2019, the series has had millions of viewers on the E4 television channel and its on-demand service during its recent UK broadcast. Martha Kalifatidis and Michael Brunelli, one of…
Two commercial greenhouses powered by the waste heat generated from a nearby water treatment plant are growing crops which will supply UK shops. Fossil fuels are often used as a source of heat in conventional commercial greenhouses, so this method also reduces carbon emissions. BBC Click’s Jen Copestake, who visited the greenhouses in 2020 while…
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working relentlessly with the health ministry and other countries to tackle oxygen shortages, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shaina Nana Chudasama has said. “It is most unfortunate that we have lost lives and nobody expected this double mutant [coronavirus] to shape up in this particular way,” she…
Brazil has recorded 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day with hospitals struggling to cope with patient numbers. Tarsila Vieceli, a coronavirus instensive care unit doctor at one hospital told BBC World News the health system had collapsed. She said: “We have been working at full capacity for quite some time right now… it has…
The current Israel-Gaza conflict is worse than previous wars, with more intense bombing, artist Malak Mattar says. She told BBC World News her daughter “is really having a hard time sleeping and she is terrified for her life”. “We are a big family of seven members, the youngest is only 10,” Mattar said. “She survived…
