Pollution

• plastic pollution
• plastic recycling
• Most Canadians want government to tackle plastic pollution
• Vancouver bans straws and plastic containers
• is there life after plastic? new inventions help
• What happened after Vanuatu banned plastic? video
• microplastics found in people for the first time
• you are eating microplastics: how to reduce your exposure
• our planet is on the edge of a plastic disaster
• 4Ocean: Plastic Recovery
• microplastics blown across the world
• microplastics raining down on cities
• microplastics raining down on US parks
• Fishing gear a major source of microplastics in Atlantic Canada
• ban on single-use plastic in Europe by 2021
• Canadian government to ban single use plastic by 2021
• China bans plastic imports: US plastic waste now going to poor countries
• almost all countries, except US, stems flow of plastic waste 
• can Norway help us solve plastic pollution?
• plastic bottle washes on shore looking new after 50 years
• how our toothbrushes litter paradise
• illegal Malaysian factories burning plastic
• dumped garbage in the Philippines returned to Canada  
• 50 nations reducing plastic use
• laundry pollution
• effects of pollution on fresh water
• world’s rivers awash with dangerous levels of antibiotics
• New Zealand promises to clean its polluted waterways
• Experts try to save Mauritius wildlife after oil spill 

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oil pollution: the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989  

• statement from ExxonMobile
• tanker ban by Coastal First Nations video
• economic impact of
• oil still found in Prince William Sound 20 years later
• Kenai Fjords National Park Service, in PDF
• sea otters recovered in Prince William Sound
• oil from Exxon Valdez still lingers on Alaska beaches
• oil spill facts

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oil pollution: the BP deepwater horizon oil rig spill in 2010:

• timeline of
• BP Tony Hayward statement
• information about  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• BP’s reckless behaviour is the cause
• what we have learned since
• accident waiting to happen
• environmental effects of
• effect on marine mammals, sea turtles
• thousands of people still sick
• effects of
• economic and environmental cost
• trashed more shoreline than thought
• cost over $65 billion
• a decade later, Deepwater still haunts Mexico
• US still vulnerable to catastrophic spills

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polluted drinking water tragedies in two cities: Flint, Michigan and Walkerton, Ontario:

• Flint: mom discovers toxic water
• Flint: the racism at the heart of Flint’s crisis
• Michigan drops all charges related to Flint’s water crisis
• Walkerton: timeline
• Walkerton: who is to blame?
• Walkerton: province and water managers at fault

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managing our waste water:

• why we need to start drinking toilet water
• waste water treatment
• waste water treatment  management of
• waste water treatment  cleaning up water

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• progress on drinking water, sanitation, hygiene   UNICEF, in PDF

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