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Representatives of 175 nations with divergent ambitions met at UNESCO headquarters in Paris for the second of five sessions, with the aim of making progress towards reaching, by next year, a historic agreement covering the entire plastics life cycle. IMAGES
The Swedish coast guard releases images of a massive spill it has detected of an unknown substance in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden. Covering a surface area of 77 square kilometres (30 square miles) in both Swedish and Finnish waters, the spill was first detected on Wednesday in the Bothnian Sea. IMAGES
The sun rises above the horizon and sets again in the far north of Finland for the last time this year, marking the start of the polar night, or "kaamos" which will last until 16 January. The village of Utsjoki, on Finland's northern border with Norway, saw sunrise at 11.34 on Thursday and sunset just 48 minutes later. Temperatures in the region, which lies 450 kilometres (280 miles) within the Arctic Circle fell to minus 27 degrees Centigrade (-16.6F). IMAGES
Athens (Greece), Dec 23 (EFE).- Lefteris Arapakis rummages through various recycling bags at the port of Piraeus, next to Athens.For a moment, his gaze settles on the sea, where a glass bottle is floating away. He has been cleaning the Mediterranean for four years and, in the bags, there are several tons of plastic. But his eyes remain fixed on the bottle that he could not get from the water. "Sometimes it is very difficult to know if our work has any impact," Arapakis, who has just won the UN Young Champion of the Earth for Europe 2020 award, told Efe. (Camera: ALBERTO BORREGUERO. Editor: VICTORIA MORENO)
Tokyo, Jul 1 (EFE).- Disposable plastic bags the Japanese regularly use in their country's stores began costing money as of Wednesday, in a radical turn for a society addicted to them. (Camera: DEMOFILO PELAEZ)FOOTAGE SHOWS PLASTIC CONSUMPTION IN TOKYO, JAPAN.
Over 35,000 plastic bottles are retrieved from the 17th century historic canals of Amsterdam. Local children are taught to fish them out in a way to keep the waters clean and raise them in the recycling culture.
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