- plastic pollution
- plastic recycling
- Most Canadians want government to tackle plastic pollution
- is there life after plastic? new inventions help
- microplastics found in people for the first time
- our planet is on the edge of a plastic disaster
- microplastics blown across the world
- ban on single-use plastic in Europe by 2021
- China bans plastic imports: US plastic waste now going to poor countries
- can Norway help us solve plastic pollution?
- plastic bottle washes on shore looking new after 50 years
- 50 nations reducing plastic use
- laundry pollution
- effects of pollution on fresh water
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
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
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
- Walkerton: timeline
- Walkerton: who is to blame?
- Walkerton: province and water managers at fault
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
- progress on drinking water, sanitation, hygiene UNICEF, in PDF
