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PUTTING PLASTIC TO GOOD USE

People in a Columbian village have found ways to reduce the plastic waste problem. Education, collecting and exchanging plastic for things they need and re-use are among them. But the supply must stop.

POLLUTION

Plastics

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BOTH ENDS ARE EXPLOITED?

Young people are desperate for money - and older people are desperate for donor organs to keep them alive. The international human organ trade makes lucrative use of this tragic situation.

CHILDREN

Trafficking

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POPULATION DROP - JAPAN

Japan's population is at a record low - for the 14th year in a row. Does the shrinking workforce - along with fewer people buying goods - threaten our current system, based as it is on growth and consumerism?

GLOBALISATION

Population

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GERMAN COURT RULES

Is this a beginning of a new approach to migrants landing in Germany? Time will tell. True refugees have a different profile to those landing on the UK south coast - being young fit fighting-age males?

PEOPLE

Migration

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ONE IN 36 KIDS HAS AUTISM

The weird thing is - politicians in the US don't seem bothered by this statistic [up from 1 in 150 as it was in 2000]. Why is no one concerned? What if we got to 1 in 10? Is there something in the jabs kids now get?

DISEASE

Autism