Plastics are everywhere, all the time. The list of dangerous chemicals and horrendous outcomes due to plastics cannot be overstated it seems to me. Yet, after 4 (FOUR!) formal discussion meetings on a plastics treaty, world leaders and their industry adovcates are no closer to a treaty. Grist summarized the conference well. “Nothing happened that…
Do we have your attention now? I wondered in a more cynical moment if the recent discovery of micro-plastics within a reported material proportion of human population will actually prompt people to change behavior wrt plastics. Now that micro-plastics can kill them individually and directly rather than indirectly via environment destruction, will they notice, will…
Some good news on plastic bag bans came out of a policy organization – Environment America – highlighted and published by Grist. Here’s the nutshell The good news is that states and cities with well-designed single-use plastic bag bans have successfully reduced plastic bag use and associated litter and pollution. Bans in five states and…
