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… every opportunity. I'd built my own altar in my bedroom: a cardboard box draped with a towel, plastic statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph rewarded for saying my prayers, my mother's crucifix …

… the throwaway culture? A toolkit created by the Earth Day Network , which set ending plastic pollution as the theme for the 48th Earth Day celebration, suggests a three-step process … study in Science Advances , cited by the Earth Day Network, there has been 9.1 billion tons of plastic produced since the 1950s, with that number expected to grow to 13.2 billion tons by 2050. … people direction and an easy outlet to dispose of recyclable and compostable materials — from plastics, to food waste, to old batteries — makes all the difference in keeping it out of their …

… to reduce and recycle .  … Part 1:  … 'Throwaway culture' in spotlight as Earth Day targets plastics … Commentary:  … Water unites us, so make it available to all … Justice Action …

… That thinking roughly a decade ago led the parish to make their own transition away from cheap plastic foam cups to corn-based compostable coffee cups. The move didn't take much convincing, … "Any time you get a cup from Starbucks, it's not a compostable cup," he said, pointing out the plastic lining on the cup's inside making it incompatible with paper recycling or composting. In … program will ask parishioners to "take the pledge" to minimize their own use of single-use plastics and materials. "There's a shame in that, I think, that all these coffee cups and things …

… gone, finally. It took nearly nine months, but at long last for Betsy Zolper the thousands of plastic foam cups that once filled the pantries at St. Mark Catholic Church, in Vienna, Virginia, … plastic pollution, with a particular aim to reduce the use and quick disposal of single-use plastics. According to a 2017 study in Science Advances , cited by the Earth Day Network, of the …

… in an email that among the first things an outsider to Haiti will notice are "empty plastic bottles thrown anywhere and as a result drains clogged and water stagnates in certain … kinds are being made, she said, including efforts to recycle waste and reduce the use of plastic bottles. One manufacturer is now making stoves that use fuel from sugarcane waste rather … "to construct a plant that manufactures bricks, sheets for roofing, vases for plants from plastic and paper waste." That project still faces hurdles, she said, including finding land to …

… held several children aloft as the delegation traversed a tight corridor, lined with white plastic chairs in which sat dozens of patients. The clinic, which is open less than four hours …

… prepare each plate. Portable tents provide shade while the Venezuelans, eating at picnic and plastic tables and chairs, share stories about how they ended up in a situation they never …

… a parent could provide. To compose  Where the Past Begins , Tan rummaged through seven large plastic bins of memorabilia, including letters, newspaper clippings, and historical and family …

… which featured practical water-saving tools and ideas. Goody bags included dense green plastic blocks participants were advised to drop in their toilet tanks at home to save water.  …

… never far from one another. She turns and watches for me, even as she is occupied shaking the plastic bottle full of beans or pulling herself up on the chair or dumping the furniture from the …

… cousins. That's when he found his teammates half-buried in the mass graves. He also saw four plastic containers that turned out to contain acid. In the next days and weeks, other villagers … away. When he fled to Bangladesh, Karim removed the memory card from his phone, wrapped it in plastic and tied it to his thigh to hide it from Myanmar police. In the Bangladesh refugee camps, …

… 19. The camps, often consisting of makeshift wood-frame buildings covered with sheets of blue plastic, spring up around unregulated mines, where men work around the clock, sluicing cobbles …

… of toxic waste that Filipinos want returned to Canada. The shipments, labeled as recyclable plastics, arrived in batches from Canada in July and August of 2013, according to environmental …

… by black mold following months of torrential rains and humidity. Our plants, deck and even our plastic white lawn chairs were covered with the awful black stuff. We treated it repeatedly with …

… rice that steams up into their faces like heady incense. We pull into our driveway. A white plastic bag hangs on the doorknob. Fresh tomatoes, big ones, little ones, some as red as the … over?" If it's not her meat loaf, it's her chicken with herbs and spices from the Far East or plastic containers of magical chicken soup that could cure lower back pain, and it's always … the kindness that carries our bag to the car or opens the door for us at Chipotle or hangs a plastic bag of just-picked tomatoes on our doorknob. Yes, it's a big, bad world out there, but …

… or in open fields. Near the camp of Balukhali, some were setting up tents made of bamboo and plastic along hillsides muddy from days of rain. Children walked uphill to capture rainwater …

… as the eye can see, anticipating the popemobile. Enthusiastic yet peaceful, many are seated in plastic chairs they brought from home, or standing with their multicolored umbrellas on an …

… with shorts, flip-flops, and some cowboy hats. Some carried banners while others stood on plastic chairs outside small restaurants and food stands to try to see the pope. Later on Sept. …

… clothes, coats, trousers, sweaters and shoes. Local residents had brought cars full of black plastic bags of clothes. Ramirez let 10 people in at a time, and they could choose up to five …