Tag: plastics
Plastics endanger human, planetary health at ‘every stage of their lifecycle,’...
From fossil fuel extraction, production, use, recycling and disposal, the study concluded that plastics are a "grave, growing, and under-recognized danger" causing disease and death.
Plastic-eating fungi thriving in human-made ‘plastisphere’ may help tackle waste globally
“The growing body of scientific evidence sheds light on the environmental potential for plastic degradation that needs to be unlocked."
600 million metric tons of plastic may fill oceans by 2036...
Fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking new revenue in the petrochemical industry in general, and plastics in particular.
Plastics recycling ‘does not work,’ environmentalists stress as U.S. recycling rates...
The authors of the report hope it sheds light on the inefficiency and unsustainable nature of plastics and plastic recycling to inspire better, widespread policies moving forward.
Phthalate exposure linked to increased risk of childhood cancer, study finds
The data also shows a nearly three-fold higher rate of osteosarcoma (a bone cancer) and a two-fold higher rate of lymphoma (a blood cancer).
Plastics set to overtake coal plants on GHG emissions, new study...
Experts say that policymakers do not currently account for the impact plastics currently have on climate change and that the issue is flying under the radar.
Oil industry’s shift to plastics in question as report warns $400...
“Remove the plastic pillar holding up the future of the oil industry, and the whole narrative of rising oil demand collapses.”
LNG, plastics and other gas industry plans would add climate pollution...
“In short, reported emissions from oil, natural gas, and chemical infrastructure have increased in recent years, and new infrastructure that is still in the pipeline has the potential to increase emissions even more.”
Coca-Cola produced more than 110 billion plastic bottles last year
Coca-Cola has increased their use of single-use plastic bottles over the last decade.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
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