#Murder mom Gigi Jordan killed herself with plastic bag, nitrogen, official said

#Murder mom Gigi Jordan killed herself with plastic bag, nitrogen, official said

“Murder mom Gigi Jordan killed herself with plastic bag, nitrogen, official said” Gigi Jordan, the millionaire pharmaceutical executive convicted of manslaughter in the death of her 8-year-old son, committed suicide by putting a plastic bag over her head filled with nitrogen gas, the city’s medical examiner’s office said Wednesday. Jordan, 62, was found dead inside her Brooklyn…

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#Brazilian artist makes classic art from plastic bag shreds

#Brazilian artist makes classic art from plastic bag shreds

“#Brazilian artist makes classic art from plastic bag shreds” Brazilian artist Eduardo Srur reproduces works by renowned masters without using a drop of paint – just recycled shreds of plastic picked up from city streets and rivers. For his latest exhibition, he has copied Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and Warhol to draw attention to pollution…

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#US and China leading in single-use plastic waste generation

#US and China leading in single-use plastic waste generation

“#US and China leading in single-use plastic waste generation” Fossil fuel companies based in the US are driving the world’s plastic pollution crisis, according to a damning new report on the single-use plastics industry. Top research institutions contributed to the study assembled by Australian watchdog group Minderoo Foundation, which puts blame on fossil-fuel companies such…

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#NYC’s Oct. 19 plastic-bag ban still on, judge says

#NYC’s Oct. 19 plastic-bag ban still on, judge says

“#NYC’s Oct. 19 plastic-bag ban still on, judge says” New York will be permitted to step up enforcement of its long delayed plastic bag ban starting on Monday despite a last-minute lawsuit aimed at pausing the effort yet again, The Post has learned. Albany state Judge Gerald Connolly declined to provide the injunctive relief requested…

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