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Yahoo News shared this article from Ideal Home: "We just found out these items aren’t recyclable - have you been making the same mistakes?"

"Have you ever thrown something you weren’t quite sure about in the recycling bin in the hopes that it’s recyclable? Of course you have, we are guilty of it too, we all have done that at some point. Unless, of course, you’re a recycling expert, well-educated on the subject. This is what’s called wishcycling or aspirational recycling."

Phys.org reports, "Recycling plastics might be making things worse. A team of environmental engineers at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and Dalhousie University Halifax in Canada has found that techniques for recycling plastics may inadvertently lead to increased environmental microplastics.

An article in TheStreet.com reported that, "This ocean is under siege from a mammoth plastic patch that’s reportedly twice the size of Texas.

Professor Wade Allison concludes. “Wind power fails on every count.” He says, adding that governments are ignoring “overwhelming evidence” of the inadequacies of wind power, “and resorting to bluster rather than reasoned analysis”.

A report in Phys.org says, "Excess mercury in atmosphere found to be coming from the world's oceans."