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NPD - Bottled water's plastic conundrum? Eat the bottle

2015-10-24 10:18:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

From a sales and growth perspective, there's a lot to like about bottled water. With US per-capita consumption up just over 6% in 2014, according to Canadean, bottled water is helping beverage makers forget about steadily-shrinking sales of carbonated soft drinks. But, bottled water has issues of its own, primarily related to single-use plastic packaging, which is increasingly seen as wasteful and possibly even harmful to health.

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Some gill nets banned in NC waters because of sea turtles

2015-10-18 13:23:19| Waste Management - Topix.net

The state Department of Environmental Quality says waters in eastern Pamlico Sound and the northern part of Core Sound are closed to anchored, large-mesh gill nets. Estuarine waters in the northeastern part of the state are closed to all anchored gill nets.

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Treasury waters down rules for bankers

2015-10-15 13:28:34| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

New rules governing financial bosses' conduct will not now include an insistence they prove they were unaware of any wrongdoing.

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Chesapeake waters are warming, study finds, posing challenges for healing ailing bay

2015-10-14 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Baltimore Sun: The Chesapeake Bay's waters are warming up, in some places rising more rapidly even than the region's air temperatures, a new University of Maryland study finds. If unchecked, scientists say the trend could complicate costly, long-running efforts to restore the ailing estuary, worsen fish-suffocating dead zones and even alter the food web on which the bay's fish and crabs depend. Drawing on remote sensing by satellites, researchers at UM's Center for Environmental Science found that water temperatures...

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