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The Bulletin: June 12-18, 2025
The Bulletin: June 12-18, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Australia – carbon bomber of the Indo-Pacific The Gas Industry Is Redefining Methane as “Clean Energy” The role of aerosol declines in recent warming By Disaster Or Design The Renewables Farce US […]
America’s plastic catastrophe
America’s plastic catastrophe China stopped taking our plastic waste. Now we’re drowning in it. Americans produce 40 million tons of plastic waste each year. And it has to go somewhere. Carl Godfrey for BI America has long had a plastic problem. It’s an urgent question — what do we do with the 40 million tons of […]
Polar plastic: 97% of sampled Antarctic seabirds found to have ingested microplastics
Polar plastic: 97% of sampled Antarctic seabirds found to have ingested microplastics Global distribution of study sites and relative 13 species considered (red dots = Arctic sites; red line = Arctic species and samples; yellow dots = Antarctica sites; yellow line = Antarctica species and samples). For each species, the matrices analyzed are shown in […]
Scientists Discover Toxic Microplastics in Every Human Placenta Tested in Study
Scientists Discover Toxic Microplastics in Every Human Placenta Tested in Study Such widespread microplastic prevalence in human tissue could explain the puzzling rise in colon cancer among younger people. Harmful microplastics have been found in human placenta, with some of them known to trigger asthma, damage the liver, cause cancer, and impair reproductive function. The […]
Most plastic isn’t recycled, burns in fires at recycling centers
Most plastic isn’t recycled, burns in fires at recycling centers Preface. Plastics are just one of 500,000 products made out of oil and gas, but very important to just about every aspect of society, from making vehicles lighter so go further using less energy, to clothes, food storage, bags, toothbrushes, buckets, garbage bins, toys, carpets, […]
Plastic Recycling Is a Disaster and a ‘Myth,’ Report Says
Plastic Recycling Is a Disaster and a ‘Myth,’ Report Says Greenpeace warns in a new report that we’ve wasted decades and billions of dollars pretending single-use plastic recycling is feasible or desirable. JUSTIN SULLIVAN / STAFF VIA GETTY IMAGES A new report from Greenpeace USA paints a dire picture for recycling efforts in the United States: They’ve fundamentally failed. […]
Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic
Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic If you put your plastic in your recycling bin, there’s a decent chance it will end up in the seas off east Asia. If you put it in landfill, it’s going nowhere Plastic in a river in Manila, the Philippines, where a significant amount of Western ‘recycling’ […]
Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic
Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic If you put your plastic in your recycling bin, there’s a decent chance it will end up in the seas off east Asia. If you put it in landfill, it’s going nowhere Plastic in a river in Manila, the Philippines, where a significant amount of Western ‘recycling’ […]
Allison Cobb’s PLASTIC: An Autobiography
Allison Cobb’s PLASTIC: An Autobiography Nightboat Books, April 2021, 352 pages, paperback $17.95, Amazon Kindle $10.99) Early on in Plastic: An Autobiography, Allison Cobb recalls her fascination with a plastic-strewn Hawaiian beach. She and three others have arrived at Kamilo Beach–a site long overrun by debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch–after an arduous journey […]
Texas Freeze Creates Global Plastics Shortage
Texas Freeze Creates Global Plastics Shortage First, it was a demand slump across pretty much every manufacturing industry because of the pandemic. Then a surge in demand for electronics caused a shortage of microchips, which hit the automotive industry particularly hard. Now, the Texas Freeze has caused a global shortage of plastics. The Wall Street Journal reported this […]
Plastic Apocalypse: Dangerous Microplastics Now Turning Up In Human Stool
Plastic Apocalypse: Dangerous Microplastics Now Turning Up In Human Stool Last month we revealed how high levels of dangerous microplastics had been detected in some of the most remote regions of the world. Now there are new reports that microplastics are turning up in human stool, a new study suggests. The study, Detection of Various Microplastics in Human Stool: A […]
Plastic, plastic everywhere
Plastic, plastic everywhere When we discard a plastic bag, an electronic device encased in plastic, a plastic pen emptied of its ink or any of the myriad plastic objects which populate our lives, we usually say we are throwing the object “away.” By that we mean into a trash or recycling bin and from there […]
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 […]
