Champions League final set to reach 450 million broadcast viewers worldwide
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2023-06-10 18:59
The debate over Ukraine aid was already complicated. Then it became tangled up in US border security
President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other needs is sitting idle in Congress
2023-11-25 21:49
Manhunt underway for four inmates, including a murder suspect, who escaped a Georgia jail after the fence was cut, authorities say
Four inmates, including a man charged with murder, are on the run from authorities after escaping a central Georgia jail through a damaged second-floor window and getting through the perimeter fences, according to authorities.
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If you happen to be near the iconic Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, then you stand a chance of getting a photo taken with a ‘giant human poo’ which has been dumped on the shore to mark World Environment Day on Monday. You may well think that plopping a poo on the coastline isn’t exactly a good look on a day designed to draw attention to protecting nature and the planet, but it’s actually made of rescued plastic from south east Asia, and intended to spread a pretty important message. On a webpage explaining their publicity stunt, the New Zealand-based company Better Packaging said: “We’re kicking up a stink because humanity has a problem. We just can’t seem to stop making more and more new plastic, most of it never gets recycled and far too much of it ends up in our oceans. “Basically, we treat plastic like s***.” We see what you did there. They continued: “This giant poop represents the amount of plastic that enters the ocean every 30 seconds. Scary huh. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter “Most of it enters via land, and most of that from Asia. These regions don’t have any formal waste management or recycling infrastructure – plastic just gets thrown ‘away’, buried or burnt. “Eventually, with the next monsoon rains, that plastic will get washed into a ditch, then a stream, a river, and then the ocean. We want to stop that happening!” Hence the four-metre high turd, which is made mostly of recycled plastics and second-hand fishing nets, with a wooden tree structure at its base to “keep it upright”. You wouldn’t want a floppy plop, after all (sorry). The artwork – if we can call it that – is titled "Plastic Pile of S***, 2023". Its unveiling follows a report by the United Nations’ Environment Programme (UNEP) in May which it said plastic pollution could fall by as much as 80 per cent by 2040 if both countries and companies make “deep” shifts in policies and markets through the use of “existing technologies”. “The way we produce, use and dispose of plastics is polluting ecosystems, creating risks for human health and destabilising the climate,” said Inger Andersen, executive director of the UNEP. Oh, and if you fancy witnessing the ‘excrement’ but are nowhere near Australia, then you might be in luck, as Better Packaging have said they’d “love to take it ‘on tour’” after going into temporary storage. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-06-06 19:23
Trapped US explorer nears rescue from deep Turkish cave
A US explorer trapped for more than a week deep in a Turkish cave with internal bleeding could be pulled to safety as early...
2023-09-11 20:19
Exclusive: Zelensky calls Putin 'weak' and says Russian President's power is 'crumbling'
Vladimir Putin's response to the armed Wagner rebellion was "weak" and the Russian President is losing control of his own people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in an exclusive interview.
2023-07-03 18:21
Palestinian militants fire rockets after Israel strikes Gaza
Israeli authorities say Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have launched dozens of rockets into Israel
2023-05-10 22:22
China is expanding its crackdown on mosques to regions outside Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch says
A report by Human Rights Watch says the Chinese government has expanded its campaign of closing mosques to regions other than Xinjiang, where for years it has been blamed for persecuting Muslim minorities
2023-11-22 19:53
James Gunn asks Internet to name best time travel movie that isn't 'BTTF' and a sleeper Christopher Reeve movie wins
While there are several other time travel movies that have been talked about after James Gunn’s tweet, ‘Somewhere in Time’ emerged as the winner
2023-06-04 14:24
Bridget Fonda Then and Now: From A-list glory to retirement obscurity, the actress' transformation
In the 1990s, Bridget Fonda enjoyed a prominent position in Hollywood at the pinnacle of her career but today, she is a stay-at-home mom
2023-10-28 22:52
IShowSpeed gets banned from OmeTV twice in a day amid talks of lifting Twitch suspension: ‘I’m not that damn ugly’
IShowPseed had to pay to get unbanned from OmeTV twice while he was streaming
2023-08-31 14:28
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