Tag Archives: environment

Why some see Chile’s plastic bag ban as a rubbish proposal

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46139180 “They are just everywhere and they are polluting our oceans, our fields, our cities,” says Guillermo González of the 3.4 billion disposable plastic bags used in Chile every year. Mr González heads the recycling department at Chile’s environment ministry and is only too aware of the problems caused by the huge amount of plastic bags used by his compatriots…. Read more »

Oil drilling underway beneath Ecuador’s Yasuní national park

THE GUARDIAN: Ecuador has confirmed that oil drilling has begun under the country’s Yasuní national park, one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. But the government claims that there has been only minimal disturbance to the Unesco biosphere reserve in the Amazon rainforest since extraction of 23,000 barrels of oil a day began last month. Ecologists, environmentalists and political groups in Ecuador… Read more »