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Cities are full of pollution and don’t have many trees, but Green City Solutions created a bench that can absorb as much pollution as 275 trees! CityTree benches hold 1682 pots of moss, have their own watering and solar monitoring systems, and even have WiFi. So far, They are in London, Berlin, Paris, Oslo and Amsterdam.
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Do your shoes keep plastic from polluting the ocean? Adidas has sold 1 million Ultraboost shoes made from plastic trash collected on beaches. The Parley for the Ocean organization tries to find uses for plastic waste before it ends up in oceans or landfills, and a pair of shoes uses about 11 bottles worth of plastic.
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Egypt is building the largest solar park in the world. The Benban Solar Park will cover 14 square miles and should generate 20% of the country’s energy when it’s finished in 2019. Egypt wants to cut back on using expensive and polluting fossil fuels. They are doing their part to fight global warming.
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Over 8 million tons of plastic end up in the world’s oceans every year. Recycling plastic helps, but countries and companies are looking for other solutions. Eliminating plastic packaging, banning plastic straws and bags, taxing single-use plastics, and changing the way people think are a start. See what plastics YOU can stop using!
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The Great Barrier Reef is an ecosystem of coral reefs over 1400 miles long off the coast of Australia. It’s the largest living thing on Earth. But pollution, climate change and coral bleaching are killing the reef. Scientists have been able to transplant healthy coral to help nurse the reef back to health.
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