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Studies: Plastics and oceans – 4 articles
Futurity: DISCARDED COVID MASKS AND GLOVES ARE REALLY BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. When it comes to COVID-19 masks, gloves, and disinfectants, the transformation from protection to pollution happens quickly, but the damage can last for centuries.
Vox: Why 99% of ocean plastic pollution is “missing”. A lot of it is […]
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Are Compostable Bags Really Compostable? What You Need to Know This Int’l Compost Awareness Week
Green Matters: Are Compostable Bags Really Compostable? What You Need to Know This Int’l Compost Awareness Week. May 2 through May 8, 2021 marks International Compost Awareness Week — an annual week-long educational initiative to get more people composting their food scraps. Composting is a fantastic way to reduce your environmental […]
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Why it’s so hard to eliminate plastic from the supply chain
Fast Company: Why it’s so hard to eliminate plastic from the supply chain. Everlane eradicated 90% of virgin plastic from its company. But it’s struggling to tackle the last 10%, mirroring challenges other companies face in trying to […]
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3 things that could improve America’s recycling problem
Good Morning America: 3 things that could improve America’s recycling problem.
Many of us crush LaCroix cans, break down cardboard boxes and try really hard to get all that peanut butter out of the jar to put it in the recycling bin instead of the trash — a small victory for […]
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Study: Microplastics in our air ‘spiral the globe’ in a cycle of pollution
CNN: Microplastics in our air ‘spiral the globe’ in a cycle of pollution, study finds.
Tiny bits of plastic from your packaging and soda bottles could be traveling in the atmosphere across entire continents, carried by winds, a new study found.
Most of our plastic waste gets buried […]
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Recycling is an outdated solution — it’s time for a circular economy
The Hill: Recycling is an outdated solution — it’s time for a circular economy. Plastic in America will continue invading our landfills, floating in our oceans, and contaminating our bodies as long as we are stuck in the 20th-century linear economic mindset of “take-make-waste.” What the 21st-century needs is an […]
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Environmental Health News, March 26, 2021
Articles include: mystery chemicals found in pregnant women; Europe’s plastic boom and US fracking; US Chemical Safety Board & trump; Paraquat poisoning; Florida’s lead poisoning problem; pesticides in US streams; Study paper released last week on Florida manatees exposed to weed killer adds glyphosate; […]
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Studies: Masks are adding to coastal trash & harming wildlife – 2 articles
OCRegister.com: Masks aren’t only reason pandemic is adding to coastal trash. A new study documents COVID-19’s role in increasing plastic pollution on beaches and in the ocean. Disposable masks, gloves and wipes are helping suppress the spread of COVID-19, but they’re adding significantly to plastic litter that’s trashing our shores and […]
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DeSmogBlog, March 27, 2021
Articles include: Appalachian Fracking Faces Financial Risks, Report Warns. Hopes for Petrochemical Plastics Boom ‘Unlikely.’ (Report is here.) Why Companies’ ‘Net-Zero’ Emissions Pledges Should Trigger a Healthy Dose of Skepticism. Experts Urge World Leaders to ‘Put Marine Ecosystems at the Heart of Climate Policy’. Climate Disinformation Database: Charlie Kirk.
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DeSmogBlog, March 20, 2021
Articles include: Argentina’s Illegal Oil and Gas Waste Dumps; Whistleblower Claims Dangerous Defects in Pipeline for Shell’s Pennsylvania Plastics Plant; Nudging Social Media Users to Think Critically Helps Slow the Spread of Fake News, Study Finds; Green Groups File ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ FTC Complaint Against Chevron for Climate Lies; Climate Disinformation […]
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