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The Bulletin: February 13-19, 2025
The Bulletin: February 13-19, 2025 CLICK HERE What Will Energy Dominance Be Used For? – by Arthur Berman Thirsty For Solutions, Water Scarcity Grips Iraq Humans will Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Nine Meals To Chaos The Double Bind of Collapse | how to save the world Ecological Collapse Supersedes Financial Collapse […]
The Bulletin: February 6-12, 2025
The Bulletin: February 6-12, 2025 CLICK HERE The Crises Yet To Come When efficiency becomes a problem: Jevons Paradox in the Age of AI – Conhecimento Hoje Supercharging the Predicaments We Face Please, be a NIMBY – by Elisabeth Robson Nuclear Fusion Is Just More Bullshit Break the Consumption Cycle Why pervasive media propaganda […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Arrow of Time
The Arrow of Time Photo by Brandon Molitwenik on Unsplash The circular economy and an endless recycling of materials is an absurd proposal, and not only from a technical perspective; the very idea of a “sustainable” high tech society is in a direct conflict with the laws of physics. After reviewing the technical reasons behind energy & resource cannibalism, as well as […]
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 […]
The Laws of Thermodynamics Will Not Bend for Landfills
The Laws of Thermodynamics Will Not Bend for Landfills Illustration by Rey Velasquez Sagcal An expert on waste management responds to Palmer Holton’s “Universal Waste.” You handle waste every day. Tissues. Bottles and cans. Kitchen scraps, maybe yard trimmings. And plastics. So many plastics. The wet, the dry, the smelly, and the disgusting. But the stuff […]
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, […]
Coles, Woolworths recycling scheme collapses after secret stockpiles revealed
Coles, Woolworths recycling scheme collapses after secret stockpiles revealed Australia’s largest plastic bag recycling program has collapsed amid revelations hundreds of millions of bags and other soft plastic items dropped off by customers at Coles and Woolworths are being secretly stockpiled in warehouses and not recycled. Instead of being taken to companies that use the […]
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’ […]
Used Car Battery Problems Take Shine Off China’s ‘Green’ New Energy Vehicles
Workers assemble electric cars in a factory in Zouping, east China’s Shandong Province on Sept. 16, 2014. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images) Used Car Battery Problems Take Shine Off China’s ‘Green’ New Energy Vehicles In the last decade, China has rapidly expanded its “green” new energy vehicle (NEV) industry but recycling and disposing of hundreds of thousands of […]
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 […]
