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Plastic Pollution

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Mermaids Hate Plastic, Benjamin von Wong © 2017

The Earth's turning plastic. We're slowly moving away but is it too little too late or can we turn the tide?

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  • david
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    The future is bioplastic, love what this startup Sway is doing with seaweed based bioplastic #plastic #bioplastic #oceanplastics
    How seaweed could replace plastic bags and packaging
    http://www.businessinsider.com/how-seaweed-could-replace-plastic-packaging-sway-2022-12
    A startup makes compostable thin-film plastic out of seaweed. It gets the seaweed from farms, which can create jobs and provide natural habitats.
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    Probably a good time to stop boiling and cooking in plastic! #plastic #microplastics
    Bottle-fed babies swallow millions of microplastics a day, study finds
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/19/bottle-fed-babies-swallow-millions-microplastics-day-study
    Exposure is far higher than previously thought and also affects plastic food containers
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    #plastic #plastictax
    A Billion More Tons of Plastic Could Blanket Earth by 2040
    https://www.wired.com/story/billion-more-tons-of-plastic-could-blanket-earth/
    Even with immediate action, 710 million metric tons of plastic will enter the environment in the next two decades, scientists show. Welcome to Plastic Planet.
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  •   dincon commented on this post about 4 years
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    STOP WITH THE PLASTIC STRAWS!

    100 million straws are used per day in the European Union. Alternatives to plastic exist: wheat, rice, cardboard, bamboo, stainless steel. Why not use them?

     https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/environnement/la-guerre-des-pailles-la-lutte-pour-debarrasser-les-oceans-du-plastique

    #LittleCitizensforClimate #plastic #pollution
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      This wont last for long, well at least not in the EU. The Single Use Plastics directive (most commonly referred to as the SUP), has already beenThis wont last for long, well at least not in the EU. The Single Use Plastics directive (most commonly referred to as the SUP), has already been approved by the EC and its on its way to all Member States. All EU Member States, will have to transpose and implement the SUP Directive into their national legislation by mid-2021!! ✌✌
      Thank God my country, even though a small one, will be one of them! 🙂        More ...
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    As if there wasn’t enough plastic out there! #plastic
    A Surge of New Plastic Is About to Hit the Planet
    https://www.wired.com/story/a-surge-of-new-plastic-is-about-to-hit-the-planet
    A world awash in plastic will soon get slammed by more, as major oil companies ramp up their production.
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  •   david commented on this post about 4 years
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    This is epic! #plastic
    The European Union Just Voted To Ban Single-Use Plastics By 2021
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandrews/2018/10/25/the-european-union-just-voted-to-ban-single-use-plastics-by-2021
    The European Parliament just voted to enact a sweeping ban on single-use plastics - the scourge of the seas - by 2021 by a whopping majority.
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    As if you needed another reason to walk, turns out driving is the main contributor of ocean microplastics #microplastics #plastic
    Tires: The plastic polluter you never thought about
    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/tires-unseen-plastic-polluter
    Because tires are made of natural rubber and plastic, it’s easy to miss just how much they contribute to pollution in our oceans.
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    Watch this space! #plastic #microplastics
    How worried should we be about microplastics?
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/02/how-worried-should-we-be-about-microplastics
    Plastic is everywhere – in our food, air, water and oceans. But do we know enough to determine how harmful it is to our health?
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    COLLECTING MILK BOXES, PLASTIC GLASSES, AND NILON BAGS

    📍 Have you heard of these speaking numbers? It is up to 1.8 MILLION TONS of #plastic given out from Vietnam each year (according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)). As much as 1,5 BILLION of used milk cartons every year (equivalent to 150,000 Tons) discarded in our country, while 100% of paper milk cartons can be #recycled into #useful materials and products. What’s next if the numbers keep increasing?

    ♻️ Fortunately, we still have many organizations that are trying to #collect and #recycle used milk boxes and plastic glasses daily. We also hope to add more roofs made by used milk boxes and get more useful recyclable things that seem to be trash.

    ♻️ We still are collecting #used_milk_boxes,#nilon_bags and #plastic_bottles at An Xanh 1958 - LearningHub Cafe. If you have any questions about the process of the collection, please comment below to we know and support you.

    Besides, you can contact Mr. Nghia. He will transport them to the recycling factory to start their new life. Please contact him on this number: 0898 651 571.

    Thank you so much for your interest. I hope all of you have a meaningful tonight
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    brilliant! renewable, biodegradable 🌵 #plastic #cactus #solutions
    How to make biodegradable 'plastic' from cactus juice
    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-48497933/how-to-make-biodegradable-plastic-from-cactus-juice
    This Mexican researcher hopes her invention can help replace single-use plastics.
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