Fashion and climate change
It appears that society's love of fast fashion is doing more harm to the planet than we'd realised; discarded clothing often ends up in landfill, litres and litres of water are used to grow cotton to make material, and tonnes of plastic fibres are washed into our oceans every year causing damage to wildlife
Sea level rise in Vietnam
Children in Vietnam are fearing sea level rise and the damage that flooding would do to their homes and villages; flooding is an annual occurrence in the Mekong Delta but is becoming even more frequent due to climate change
China bans plastic waste imports
The US used to export the majority of its plastic waste to China, but a new ban on plastic importing has meant that thousands of tonnes of waste now has to be sent elsewhere; in a controversial move, plastic is now being sent to poorer countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam who are struggling to deal with the increased volume of rubbish
It appears that society's love of fast fashion is doing more harm to the planet than we'd realised; discarded clothing often ends up in landfill, litres and litres of water are used to grow cotton to make material, and tonnes of plastic fibres are washed into our oceans every year causing damage to wildlife
Sea level rise in Vietnam
Children in Vietnam are fearing sea level rise and the damage that flooding would do to their homes and villages; flooding is an annual occurrence in the Mekong Delta but is becoming even more frequent due to climate change
China bans plastic waste imports
The US used to export the majority of its plastic waste to China, but a new ban on plastic importing has meant that thousands of tonnes of waste now has to be sent elsewhere; in a controversial move, plastic is now being sent to poorer countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam who are struggling to deal with the increased volume of rubbish