Sentence examples for of plastic litter from inspiring English sources

The environmentally conscious approach to road construction was developed in India around 15 years ago in response to the growing problem of plastic litter.

The mountain of plastic litter, including bags, food packaging and toys, was equivalent to five full shopping bags of debris for every foot of coastline bordering nearly 200 countries the team studied.

Earning around 20 rupees (50 cents) per kilo of plastic litter, Ravi makes between 50 and 100 rupees a day of which he aims to send 1,200 rupees a month to his younger sister in Nagpur.

A 13-metre-long fishing net, a 70cm piece of plastic from a car and other pieces of plastic litter had been inadvertently ingested by the animals, who may have thought they were food, such as squid, their main diet, which they consume by sucking their prey into their mouths.

Weary of plastic litter, Grand Canyon National Park officials were in the final stages of imposing a ban on the sale of disposable water bottles in the Grand Canyon late last year when the nation's parks chief abruptly blocked the plan after conversations with Coca-Cola, a major donor to the National Park Foundation.

Our model takes the colour, transparency, reflectivity and shape of plastic litter into account.

Developing efficient strategies for achieving the prevention and minimization of the generation of marine plastic litter.  .

Developing efficient strategies for achieving the prevention and minimization of the generation of marine plastic litter.

Most of the plastic litter comes from single-use items, which have been inadequately disposed of and not recycled.

They have accounted for about 4% of the plastic litter that Mason and her students have collected from the Great Lakes.

It's one of several swirling trash zones in our oceans, and it's where a lot of our plastic litter ends up.