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We all know that animals are dying daily from accidentally ingesting plastic – everything from camels to elephants, birds to whales and more are being killed … and the problem just got a whole lot worse. Micro bits of plastic may be killing teeny, tiny beasties. Traditional plastics degrade rather then biodegrade, which means they [...]
This month we are upping the bar with an article that’s well written and wildly informative. Yes we have a guest post…… While trawling through the internet I stumbled across the fantastic website www.explainthatstuff.com written by Chris Woodford. It is all more than good but there was an article on plastic so pleasing that I had [...]
Some interesting write ups on plastic bags Related articles Plastic Bag Bans Boost Sales of Reusable Promo Bags (prnewswire.com) ICEGREEN (Reusable Bags & Packaging Products) Announces Lead Free and Machine Washable Reusable Laundry Bags for Hotels (prweb.com) Santa Monica kicks off ban of plastic bags (abclocal.go.com) Long Beach plastic bag ban goes into effect (abclocal.go.com)
“Many consumers already look for commercial products that do not contain Bisphenol A (BPA), an estrogenically active compound that some manufacturers use for creating plastics and which leaches out of products over time (estrogenically active compounds are suspected to lead to birth defects, cancers and other health problems). But BPA is only part of the [...]
“Discarding many human-made items, from plastic straws to nuclear waste to nail polish, rank as events at the same space-time scale as massive earthquakes and global climate change. Since the 1930′s, humans have been making geological garbage.” read whole article
Material Weight Generated Weight Recovered Recovery as Percent of Generation Paper and paperboard 77.42 42.94 55.5% Glass 12.15 2.81 23.1% Metals Steel 15.68 5.29 33.7% Aluminum 3.41 0.72 21.1% Other nonferrous metals† 1.76 1.21 68.8% Total metals 20.85 7.22 34.6% Plastics 30.05 2.12 7.1% Rubber and leather 7.41 1.06 14.3% Textiles 12.37 1.89 15.3% Wood [...]
Copied this in total because it is so interesting – to see the original and all its links go to do the green thing. Carbon saved by recycling your waste Each year the UK produces around 434 million tonnes of waste, with 30 million tonnes of it coming out of our homes, and the cost [...]
Wild life vet Jerry Haigh writes “Meanwhile three elephants in Chobe National Park died after eating trash from the Chobe landfill.” A senior Wildlife Biologist, Mr Keagapetse Mosugelo said the elephants died as a result of plastics they ate in the landfill. “The situation at the landfill is not good for animals,” he said, adding [...]
SUC50012 Originally uploaded by ouroboros-team While rifling flickr for nasty plastic photos, (see my plastic visual world map for details), I come across people documenting and commenting on the ever increasing amounts of plastic pollution. Blogged from there is this weeks Guest Speaker _ I urge you to look at his other stuff Pollution [...]
Here’s a website to get you snorting… save the plastic bag ..which, yes you guessed it, is out to prove that plastic bags are harmless and much maligned. He might want to visit adopt a beach and check out the following reports…. “Plastic bags have been found in stomachs of the following marine species. several [...]
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