According to Attenborough, the world is changing its attitude towards plastic

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A technique has recently been developed at Rice University's James Tour lab by graduate student Duy Luong, which allows waste coal, food and plastic to be transformed into graphene flakes in a 'flash' reaction, reducing carbon dioxide by-products and providing researchers with a new cheap method for producing large amounts of graphene for compositing with concrete, cars, clothing, etc.

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According to some new research, there may be 8.3 million pieces of micro-plastic in every 1000 liters of water in the ocean. The new study used significantly smaller nets to collect samples from the ocean and found that micro-plastic had been escaping the larger nets that were previously being used.

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According to a recent report, a sperm whale died off the coast of a Scottish Island this week, due to the fact that it was being weighed down by 100 kilograms of trash. An autopsy on the whale revealed that the trash was comprised mainly of fishing nets and plastic.

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While speaking at the two-week climate summit in Madrid, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, stressed the importance of changing the way humanity interacts with nature. He went on to say that 'man's war against nature' must stop and that stopping it is not impossible. However, no country in the world is currently meeting the standard that is required in order to fight global warming.

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