Paradise lost: Remote Henderson Island in the South Pacific is covered in 18 tons of our trash
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Posted by MIT Dr. Reilly cries for planet on Sat, 03 Jun 2017 06:08 | #
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Posted by Al Ross on Sat, 03 Jun 2017 08:24 | # It is imperative that President Trump earmarks taxpayers’ money , oh wait, no, it’s borrowed from China, to compensate China with regard to Gullible, sorry Global Warming. 4
Posted by DanielS on Sat, 03 Jun 2017 09:08 | # The money issue is one thing, not sure how that calculates yet - economic travesties are quite possible under its rubric. However, we all have a stake in the environment irrespective of that. The reason I put a comment on the warming issue under this post, is because Henderson Island is a graphic illustration of the world being not so big as to not be impacted by human waste and effluence. 5
Posted by Big oil lauds Paris pullout but warns rising sea on Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:24 | #
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Posted by Environmental catastrophe of plastic debris on Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:33 | # Special report: A Plastic Tide, an environmental catastrophe in Mumbai -
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Posted by Trump expands offshore oil assault on biodiversity on Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:45 | # Trump Expands Offshore Drilling in “Assault” on Biodiversity and Coastal & Indigenous Communities 8
Posted by Plastic Particles Contaminating Bottled Water on Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:20 | #
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Posted by mancinblack on Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:08 | # The River Tame in Denton, Greater Manchester has an unwanted record, the highest level of plastic particles - 517,000 particles of plastic particles per square metre of sediment - in the world. The next highest are the beaches off South Korea. 10
Posted by Dead whale - 64lbs of plastic in its stomach on Thu, 12 Apr 2018 04:14 | #
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Posted by Seattle bans single use plastics on Tue, 03 Jul 2018 01:09 | #
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Posted by Single use plastics on Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:49 | #
Yes, how about taxing the supply side for making this invincible garbage and effluent?
It’d be good to eliminate as much as possible “single Use plastics”, of course, but the term has a suspiciously conservative, placating sound to it, like “illegal immigration.” ....as if putting a dent in single use plastics is enough and as if re-usable plastics are unproblematic. 13
Posted by Biodegradable cornstarch cup functions as plastic on Sun, 19 Aug 2018 05:31 | # Super cool. “Plastic” cup and lid of coffee cup (rest of which is paper) are made of corn starch. Behaves just like plastic but biodegrades in 30 days. This is a Welsh council doing this. Zero single use plastic. If they can afford to so can Starbucks/Costa et al. 14
Posted by mancinblack on Sun, 19 Aug 2018 11:27 | # Chilean researchers Roberto Astete and Christian Olivares have produced a new type of plastic bag, derived from limestone, that biodegrades in five minutes. “With the eyes of the press upon them, Astete and Olivares demonstrate two products ; plastic bags that dissolve in cold water and reusable canvas bags that break down in hot water. “What remains in the water is carbon” says Astete, which medical tests have shown “has no effect on the human body”. To prove that what is left behind in warm water is harmless he drinks a few glasses of the water”. “The main difference between traditional plastic and ours is that traditional plastic remains 150 and 500 years in the environment and ours lasts only five minutes. You can decide when to destroy it. Today the recycling machine could be your washing machine or saucepan”. https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/08/01/inenglish/1533122791_820772.html 15
Posted by EU to ban single use plastics by 2021 on Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:19 | #
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Posted by Paradise Lost: Bikini Island on Thu, 27 Dec 2018 14:13 | # 18
Posted by Kevin Michael Graceless on Wed, 08 May 2019 08:48 | # The Pacific Garbage Patch does not care about Kevin Michael Grace’s inconvenience of having to remember to bring a bag when he goes out. 19
Posted by Banana Leaf Packaging on Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:30 | #
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Posted by Plastic eating caterpillars on Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:20 | #
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Posted by mancinblack on Fri, 12 Jul 2019 18:54 | #
“German study casts doubt on ‘plastic digesting’ caterpillars” https://phys.org/news/2017-09-german-scientists-plastic-eating-caterpillars.html So, maybe not then…. 22
Posted by Recycling plastic bottles for subway ride on Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:41 | # Depositing 30 plastic bottles into a recycling machine can add up to a subway ride in Rome 24
Posted by The toll of plastic on our oceans on Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:17 | # The toll of plastic on our oceans Post a comment:
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