Day: April 15, 2025

According to a new study, less than ten percent of plastic waste worldwide is recycled. Of the 400 million tons of plastic produced in 2022, only 9.5 percent came from recycled materials. “The global recycling rate is stagnating”, according to a study published in the journal ‘Communications Earth & Environment’ by a research team from Beijing’s Tsinghua University. While more and more plastic is being produced, there has been hardly any progress in recycling. The low recycling rate means that fossil fuels – mainly oil and gas – are used…

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According to data from the EU climate change service Copernicus, last month was the warmest March in Europe since records began. The average temperature on the continent was 6.03 degrees, 2.41 degrees above the average for the comparable period from 1991 to 2020, according to Copernicus. Globally, it was the second warmest March ever recorded. In addition, the lowest extent of Arctic sea ice ever measured in a March was recorded. According to the service, it was also the 20th month in the past 21 months in which the global…

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