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The majority of people think a 5p charge on single-use carrier bags should be introduced in England to cut litter and waste, a poll suggested today.
Three-quarters of those quizzed (75%) said they would try to cut down on the use of new plastic bags if there was a 5p charge on them, according to the survey for a coalition of groups pushing the Government to bring in a bag levy in England.
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Ireland's capital city Dublin was the 17th city to implement a public bicycle rental scheme. At its launch in 2009, the scheme had 450 bicyles and 40 stations. By May 2011, two million journeys had been made, and plans are now afoot to expand to 5,000 bicyles and 300 stations.
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Forty percent of food in the United States is never eaten, amounting to $165 billion a year in waste, taking a toll on the country's water resources and significantly increasing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council released this week.
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Almost a third of the homes in Wales will be powered by green energy, a company behind a major new wind farm project pledged yesterday.
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It's like beer goggles gone wrong. A common chemical used to make plastics also causes fish to indiscriminately court members of other species – behaviour that could result in interbreeding and the merger of two species.
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