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On an early May Monday morning in 1768, George Washington 36 years old, war veteran, elected official set out to spend the day pursuing one of his favored hobbies, angling in the Potomac River that ran along the lands and farms of Mount Vernon. He may have enjoyed the quiet of a pleasant spring day, but he went home empty-handed. Later he wrote in his diary: “Fishing for Sturgeon from Breakfast to Dinner but catchd none.”
A van load of Amazon plastic packaging is dumped in oceans every 70 minutes and that includes enough air pillows to wrap around the Earth 500 times, study reveals.
Marine conservation charity Oceana published a new report investigating the amount of waste the retail giant and its sellers generate each year around the world.
They found Amazon has a disturbingly large plastic waste footprint, including 211,000 tonnes of plastic packaging for the seven billion items sold worldwide.
Amazon disputes the figures from Oceana, claiming they dramatically miscalculated the firms use of plastic, exaggerating it by over 350 per cent.
The firm says Oceana used flawed methodology and that Amazon used about a quarter of the plastic packaging estimated by Oceana’s report.