Isn't it time to get plastic out of your life?
We need to talk about plastic bottles
Plastic litter taints sea surface
Airsoft pistol pellets a threat
5 Gyres: Working to Restore Healthy, Plastic-Free Oceans
Ban on microbeads in cosmetics
Hamburg bans single-serve coffee pods and single-use plastic water bottles
Plastic bags are killing us
Victoria moves for regional plastic bag ban
Does your bottled water contain plastic?
Microplastics may enter freshwater & soil via compost
Jamaica bans single-use plastics
Why Canada’s recycling industry is in crisis mode
Single-use plastics banned in the EU
Is it possible to recycle plastics an infinite number of times?
Canadian Plastics Industry, Markets and Waste
A Report published by Environment and Climate Change Canada
Oceans
receive 8 million tons of plastic per year. 1,000 truck-loads of
compressed plastic trash are dumped into our oceans every day.
The North Pacific Gyre is twice the size of Texas
and contains 11 million tons of floating plastic.
Do Something Drastic
Cut Out the Plastic
The World in a Barrel
Crude oil is the most traded commodity in the world.
What is it made of and where does it go?
Contamination is one of the reasons that China has implemented a ban on 32 different “recyclable” imports. China had been importing 45 percent of the world’s plastic waste since 1992. Now they are stepping up and taking their future into their own hands,
arguing that the waste is harming their environment and human
population. This has left developed countries like the United States
scrambling to figure out where to put their waste.
We don’t want it overflowing our rivers, blanketing our fields or tumbling across our streets…but we’d let it happen to another city in another country across the world. This wouldn’t be nearly as problematic if society wasn’t driven by rapid consumption. JMP
What Big Food is hiding with its slick
PR campaign on GMOs
The future of agriculture is regenerative
Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence