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Japan’s famous Nara deer dying from eating plastic bags | World news
Authorities in Japan’s ancient capital Nara are warning visitors not to feed the city’s wild deer – a major tourist attraction – after several of the animals died after swallowing plastic bags. Large amounts of plastic waste were found in the stomachs of nine of 14 deer to have died since March, according to a …
Grocery store urges customers to rethink plastic with embarrassing bags | World news
If concern over the climate crisis or revulsion over the contamination of the food chain are not enough to change consumer behaviour, one grocery store is hoping that another emotion may persuade people to shun single-use plastic bags: shame. Customers who don’t bring their own bags to the East West Market in Vancouver will instead …
