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#News: #Jakarta’s Bantar Gebang #landfill is overflowing! 🗑️🌋 10k tonnes of trash/day, 10k waste pickers live in squalor. Gov plans to close it by 2027, but without alternatives, the city could drown in waste #EndPlasticWaste #PlasticPollution @palmoildetectives theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

‘The trash does not stop’: life among the garbage mountains of Jakarta, the world’s biggest city

Indonesia’s government is grappling with how to manage waste at Bantar Gebang – Jakarta’s largest landfill – which supports the livelihood of thousands of waste pickers
Guardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
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#nature #environment #plastic #microplastics #plasticpollution #wetlands

Sea salt in Lombok Island, Indonesia is contaminated with microplastics: study news.mongabay.com/short-articl…

#Indonesia #Lombok #environment #plastic #microplastics #PlasticPollution

Sea salt in Lombok Island, Indonesia is contaminated with microplastics: study

Sea salt sold in markets across Lombok Island, Indonesia, is contaminated with microplastics, according to a recent study. Microplastics are small plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in length that form when larger plastic waste breaks down.
bobbybascomb (Mongabay Environmental News)
#environment #plastic #indonesia #microplastics #plasticpollution #lombok

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#News: Beneath the #ocean, #bacteria are evolving to eat plastic! #Research finds plastic-eaters process 80% of ocean samples. 🌊♻️ Humans must act now and stop being complacent! #ClimateChange #PlasticPollution @palmoildetect
sciencedaily.com/releases/2025…

Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes.
ScienceDaily
#News #Ocean #Research #climatechange #bacteria #plasticpollution

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New #Microplastics Research❗️:
“Results imply that PS-NPs accumulate in the roots of water spinach, compromising the upward transport of water and nutrients and undermining the antioxidant defense system of the leaves at the physiological and molecular levels.”

We need to start considering the overarching impact of polystyrene plastics!

Citation: Dandan Gao et al. 2023. sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

#PlasticPollution #environmentalhealth #nanoplastics

#microplastics #plasticpollution #environmentalhealth #nanoplastics

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