California bans hotels from using tiny plastic shampoo bottles
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hotels in the nation’s most populous state will have to stop giving guests small plastic shampoo bottles under a new law set to take effect starting in … Read more
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How Much Crude Oil Does Plastic Production Really Consume?
By Irina Slav Many social media users had a field day recently when Greta Thunberg tweeted a picture in which the 16-year-old activist was snacking on food in plastic packaging. Activists against … Read more
90% of plastic waste comes from Asia and Africa, but Americans are told they need to stop using plastic straws
by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) There’s some good news on the environmental front: Carbon emissions in the United States are reportedly at their lowest levels since 1992. But you’d never know … Read more
The $79 Billion Plastic Item Exports Industry, Visualized
by howmuch Have you ever wondered where your plastic comes from? You may assume it comes from previously recycled waste, but it turns out that less than 10% of the world’s plastic … Read more
New York To Ban Plastic Bags; Second Statewide Ban After California
According to The Associated Press, environmental advocates estimate that New Yorkers use up to 23 billion plastic bags annually. As a way to curb the displeasing source of litter, New … Read more
Students Invent Bacteria That Eat Plastic From The Oceans And Turn It Into Water
via physics-astronomy.org: The high pollution in the oceans is a big problem on the planet. According to recent research, it is likely that in the year 2050 we will find more … Read more
Dow Signs Deal To Source Oil From Plastic Waste
By Tsvetana Paraskova Dow Inc said on Thursday that it is partnering with the Netherlands-based Fuenix Ecogy Group to turn recycled plastic waste into oil. Dow will use the feedstock, pyrolysis oil, … Read more
Why the War on Plastic isn’t working – recycling myths exposed
There’s a war on plastic – government around the world are trying to cut the amount we use it. But does the science make sense? Plastic waste is polluting the … Read more
Hamburger Hot Dog Buns Sold at Walmart, Publix Recalled After Plastic Pieces Found
Flowers Foods, Inc. is voluntarily recalling hamburger and hot dog buns and other bakery products, the Georgia-based company said in a press release. The products could have small pieces of … Read more
BJORN LOMBORG: Sorry, banning plastic bags won’t save our planet.
via theglobeandmail: A 2018 study by the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food looked not just at plastic waste, but also at climate-change damage, ozone depletion, human toxicity and other … Read more
Plastic may soon outweigh fish as world’s oceans become toxic dumping grounds
by: Bridgette Wilcox (Natural News) The problem of plastic pollution in the oceans is no longer a myth, but a reality that is getting increasingly harder to ignore — especially … Read more
Researchers discover that 54.5% of all plastic in the oceans comes from just five Asian countries; less than 1% comes from the United States.
Plastic waste inputs from land intothe ocean – Science Magazine This isn’t shocking. Look up the carbon output of China alone. Leftists want to save the world but don’t even … Read more
Venezuela socialist nightmare: Dead buried in plastic wrap because family can’t afford a casket
by Dr. Eowyn Hollie McKay reports for FoxNews, Dec. 13, 2018, that as the crisis in Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship deepens with mass hunger, starvation and a lack of medical supplies, there is … Read more
Over 300 BILLION pieces of plastic now POLLUTE the Arctic Ocean as humankind accelerates destruction of life everywhere
by: Rhonda Johansson (Natural News) Around 300 billion pieces of plastic (or around 150 millions tons of waste) pollute the Arctic Ocean, concludes an international team of researchers after assessing the levels … Read more
Consumers Are Being Lackadaisical Again With Their Plastic
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Consumer debt – or euphemistically, consumer “credit” – jumped 4.9% in the third quarter compared to the third quarter last year, or by $182 billion, to … Read more
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé found to be worst plastic polluters worldwide in global cleanups and brand audits
~garbage is garbage, and the 7+ billion of we humans generate a lot of it. Plastic trash. Plastic retail container trash that nobody wants anyway but the international manufacturing corporations … Read more