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John Oliver on plastics pollution: Our personal behavior is not the main culprit
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A new study led by a statewide environmental nonprofit organization found microplastics in each of 53 Pennsylvania waterways sampled, including four in Centre County.
The report “Microplastics in Pennsylvania,” released Wednesday by PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center found that samples taken from Spring Creek, Slab Cabin Run, Buffalo Run and Cedar Run all contained microplastics tiny pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters in length.
More than 300 samples were collected from bodies of water in every corner of the state for the study, which used a citizen-science protocol developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that has been implemented across the country to identify microplastic contamination.
My Turn: Nightmarish prophecy of a great world of plastic now a manifest
Fortune magazine declared, in this cover story in October 1940, that the United States had entered the Plastic Age. Chris Mullen/fulltable.com
In 1940, we entered the Plastic Age, declared Fortune magazine in its prophetic October issue.
Writers and graphic artists swooned at the rapid evolution of miraculous new plastics, and hailed them for their vibrant color, lightness, versatility, malleability and durability. They forecast a time when practically anything could be pressed, squeezed, rolled, sawed, drawn, cast, or carved from plastic even cars and houses.
Feverishly, the Fortune writers and artists mapped a “synthetic continent of plastics,” where the cardinal points were those of the chemical compass carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen. Its plastic countries included Melamine, Petrolia, Cellulose (“something like Texas”), Acrylic, and Phenolic, “the greatest plastic country of all a h
After a year of unprecedented devastation and loss, the arrival of 2021 has shown us at least a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Our top priority remains the immediate health and safety of our fellow citizens, but we also have a responsibility to begin planning for a post-pandemic future. Right now, we have a historic opportunity to not just re-build what we’ve lost, but to “build back better” by making environmental sustainability a pillar of our national and global recovery.
Consider the clear and growing problem of plastic pollution. Every minute, the equivalent of a dump truck full of plastic waste seeps into our oceans, and that number is projected to nearly triple by 2040. In order to close the loop on waste flowing into our oceans and other ecosystems, we need to create a truly circular economy in which plastic maintains its value at every stage of its life cycle, stopping it from becoming waste in the first place. But in order to accomplish that, we first
Guest columnist Julio Alves: Nightmarish prophecy of a great world of plastic now a manifest
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