As You Sow has reported a plastic pollution scorecard…and a full report that you can read. What is most surprising is the list of companies that have failing grades. Indeed, if this plastic pollution scorecard represented a test result by a teacher who wanted a bell curve, it would need quite a curve adjustment! Only […]
The journal, Environmental Science and Technology has identified 10,500 chemicals in a range of plastics recently studied. More importantly, and of course more frightening, 2840 of these were “substances of potential concern” and 1000 of these can be harmful in small doses. To make matters worse, over half of the chemicals that are potentially harmful […]
This sentence says it all on microplastics. “The staggering amount of microplastics we found likely means that no river, lake or stream is safe from this increasingly common contaminant.” Franz Savitz, PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center. Let me scare you some more. Rutgers is now studying the impact on marine species that we consume….including, blue […]
Here is an interesting concept….Recycling is outdated and not a part of the circular economy. The article in The Hill focuses on plastics within the recycling stream. A primary contention is that we do not capture enough plastic in our recycling programs and most of it goes into the environment (TRUE). The second contention is […]
George Washington University is moving to phase out single use plastics. They are installing water refill stations and phasing out plastic bottles in vending machines; phasing out disposable service ware and other single use plastics along with taking other steps to be more sustainable. While this will not change the world, it will change a […]