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Campaigns and social media often encourage people to make eco-friendly choices like using less plastic or driving less. While these actions are important, focusing so much on what people do can distract from the much larger role that businesses and governments play in causing and solving environmental problems.

Green-led authority consulting on changes it says could save £2m and encourage recycling – critics fear it will increase fly-tipping

Major retailers such as Costa Coffee, Burger King, Caffe Nero and Tinderbox are involved

New regulations have now been introduced to enable the appointment of a managing body for the scheme in April this year.

Cars speeding along a smooth, black-coloured street in Nepal's Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic, transformed into an ingredient in road construction.

Most of what we consume in Canada is neither recycled nor reused.

The House of Commons voted 352 to 75, majority 277, in favour of the proposal designed to incentivise recycling of drinks containers.

Mexican officials ordered facility to shut down after report on very high levels of pollutants in surrounding neighborhood