In an attempt to remedy its horrific air pollution problems of recent years, a meaningful Chinese shift away from coal seems to also be having global benefit. (slate.com)
The image at right is from a gallery of graphics describing some of the issues that persist despite extraordinary progress against water pollution problems in recent decades. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
However, it does little to address the increasing plastic pollution problem as it is essentially chemically identical to oil - based plastic and resistant to breaking down. (ethicalconsumer.org)