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Selling a Mirage
Selling a Mirage The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a “solution” that works like magic. Don’t be fooled. LAST YEAR, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it […]
Coca-Cola responsible for more than half of worldwide plastic pollution, study says
Coca-Cola responsible for more than half of worldwide plastic pollution, study says In general, food and beverage companies are the largest polluters in the world. ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Coca-Cola is responsible for more than half of the plastic pollution across the globe, according to a new study. Researchers found that the Atlanta-based […]
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution Study confirms Altria, Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders Fewer than 60 multinationals are responsible for more than half of the world’s plastic pollution, with six responsible for a quarter of that, based on the findings of […]
The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here’s where a lot of it ends up
The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here’s where a lot of it ends up A local fisherman performs maintenance on his boat while surrounded by trash washed up on Loji Beach in West Java, Indonesia. The western coast of Java in Indonesia is popular with surfers for its world-famous […]
From the Recycling Bin to the Landfill: The Major Flaw in Plastic Recycling
From the Recycling Bin to the Landfill: The Major Flaw in Plastic Recycling Reports estimate that less than 6 percent of plastic in the United States is recycled, pointing to the impracticality of recycling on a large scale. People may be putting plastic into recycling bins, but most of it generally ends up in landfills […]
Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System
Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System Plastic wrappers and parcels that start off in Americans’ recycling bins end up at illegal dumpsites and industrial furnaces — and inside the lungs of people in Muzaffarnagar. Muzaffarnagar, a city about 80 miles north of New Delhi, is famous in India for two […]
What a milk carton can tell us
What a milk carton can tell us On the package of organic milk from Coop (Sweden) I can read the plastic cap is made out of oil. For some reason they can’t use biodegradeable plastic made from renewable sources. Instead they “support the production of the same quantity of renewable plastic somewhere else”. In addition […]
Plastic Apocalypse: Dangerous Microplastics Invade Alps To Artic, Found In Fresh Snow
Plastic Apocalypse: Dangerous Microplastics Invade Alps To Artic, Found In Fresh Snow A new study has revealed that high levels of microplastics have been detected in some of the most remote regions of the world. The discovery, published in the journal Science Advances, is the first international study on microplastics in snow, conducted by the Alfred Wegener […]
Plastics Industry on Track to Burn Through 14% of World’s Remaining Carbon Budget: New Report
Plastics Industry on Track to Burn Through 14% of World’s Remaining Carbon Budget: New Report The plastics industry plays a major — and growing — role in climate change, according to a report published today by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). By 2050, making and disposing of plastics could be responsible for a cumulative 56 […]
A Field Guide to the Petrochemical and Plastics Industry
A Field Guide to the Petrochemical and Plastics Industry The shale gas industry has been trying to build demand for fossil fuels from its fracked oil and gas wells by promoting the construction of a new petrochemical corridor in America’s Rust Belt and expanding the corridor on the Gulf Coast. To help demystify terms like “natural […]
IEA: Plastics Will Replace Fuels As Key Oil Demand Driver
IEA: Plastics Will Replace Fuels As Key Oil Demand Driver Plastics will displace fuels as the main driver for crude oil demand, the International Energy Agency said today, adding that petrochemicals will come to account for more than 33 percent of oil demand growth globally in the period to 2030. By 2050, they will drive […]
Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back
Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back Charles Sprague Pearce The Arab jeweler c1882 There are a lot of industries in our world that wreak outsized amounts of havoc. Think the biggest global banks and oil companies. Think plastics. But there is one field that is much worse than all others: agro-chemicals. At some point, […]
Low Oil Prices Take Their Toll On Recycling Sector
Low Oil Prices Take Their Toll On Recycling Sector “Plastics,” Mr. McGuire tells Ben Braddock in the 1967 film “The Graduate.” He was impressing on the young man the importance of one of the chief branches of the oil industry: Virtually every item available at the time contained plastic, or was packaged in it. So […]
