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Recycle Crisis Sweeps Across America After China Halts Plastic Waste Imports
Recycle Crisis Sweeps Across America After China Halts Plastic Waste Imports The green movement of the 1970s formed the modern American recycling industry, although there is some concern today that it could be collapsing in many parts of the country, The New York Times warned. “The sooner we accept the economic impracticality of recycling, the sooner […]
We Are All in the Clutches of the Delusion Dragon
We Are All in the Clutches of the Delusion Dragon Image by Jean Arnold, Association for the Tree of Life It’s time to accept that we are not going to dislodge the entrenched interests holding back effective action on looming climate chaos by any means tried so far. Believing that 97% of credible scientists is […]
9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic – For Good!
9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic – For Good! One of the big problems with our prepackaged, modern, consumer spending-based economies is that everything is mass-produced in plastic with little or no regard for the future problems it creates. To date, 14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year – […]
Toxic ‘Reform’ Law Will Gut State Rules on Dangerous Chemicals
TOXIC “REFORM” LAW WILL GUT STATE RULES ON DANGEROUS CHEMICALS A NEW SET OF BILLS that aims to update the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act may nullify the efforts of states such as Maine and California to regulate dangerous chemicals. The Senate’s bill, passed last month, just before the holidays, is particularly restrictive. The Frank R. […]
Taking a Bite Out of Plastic Waste: New Research Offers Unexpected Promise as Permaculture Hack
Taking a Bite Out of Plastic Waste: New Research Offers Unexpected Promise as Permaculture Hack Reducing plastic pollution has seemed a daunting prospect, until now. Can the tiny Mealworm bite off more than we can chew? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans alone throw away 25 billion Styrofoam cups each year. Styrofoam […]
Microplastics at ‘alarming levels’ in Canadian lakes and rivers
Microplastics at ‘alarming levels’ in Canadian lakes and rivers Microbeads just tip of plastic iceberg floating in Canadian waters Tiny plastic pellets called microbeads have gotten a lot of attention as a major water pollutant, but less-discussed microplastics are equally concerning, according to new research being done in Canada. “In recent years, they’ve been detected […]
Ocean Plastic Estimated at 5.25 Trillion Pieces — But Where’s the Rest? – Our World
Ocean Plastic Estimated at 5.25 Trillion Pieces — But Where’s the Rest? – Our World. The deluge of plastic detritus — from the large to the microscopic — swirling about in our oceans weighs in at 269,000 metric tons, according to the most comprehensive research on marine plastic hot off the press yesterday. One of the […]
The Plastic Society – Moving Towards Plastic Independence
The Plastic Society – Moving Towards Plastic Independence. We all know about society’s over-consumption of plastic. We’ve heard again and again that it takes up to a millennia for plastics to bio-degrade (1), and consumers worldwide are using approximately 500 billion single-use plastic bags per year (2). And the issue of micro-plastic in our oceans […]
