Garbage

The Garbage Apocalypse is the theorized point when there will be simply too much trash to deal with.


Of all the myriad headlines now dominating the news, the global waste crisis is undoubtedly the least ‘sexiest.’ As compared to war, for example, garbage lacks the tantalizing clash of personalities; it has no military strategy to unravel, and no massive amounts of ‘war booty’ for the military industrial complex to haul home.

In our series of articles on the State of the Russian Federation speech given last week by President Vladimir Putin, we now move to a topic that was once very neglected in Russia, but now is taking its place in the scheme of things – the environment.

I am sick of serious streams. Today I rested my soul with women comedians, all of whom suck. Join me dear chat as we steal Paula Poundstone and Lizz Winstead and Amy Shoomer “jokes” . Best comedian in the chat tonight will get a free signed famous person book from me!!!! Also I will unveil my Andy Warski impression for the first time!
 

Homage to Blade Runner?

For the past several weeks, an environmentalist by the name of Rob Greenfield has been walking around New York City with 42 pounds of trash and counting strapped to his body. [1]
Normally, Greenfield is as friendly to the earth as he possibly can be. But for one month, he has committed to behaving like the average American and generating about 4.5 pounds of trash per day.

The saying, “There’s plenty of fish in the sea” will be utter nonsense by 2050, scientists say, because plastic will dominate the oceans.
Use of plastic has increased 20-fold in the past half-century, and plastic production is expected to double over the next 2 decades and nearly quadruple over the next 50 years. Nearly 1/3 of all plastic packaging “escapes collection systems,” CNN Money reports.

The world’s oceans are filled with plastic. More than 5 million pieces of it are floating around, being eaten by fish and passed up the food chain. Every year, more than 100,000 marine animals and seabirds are killed by plastic waste.
Illustration: P. Huey. Sourced from U.T. Bornscheuer, Science 351:1154 (2016).
Of the 342 million tons of plastic produced each year, a tiny fraction of it – about 14% – is recyclable.

For more than 30 years Kraft Foods has been producing Capri Sun juices, packaged in non-recyclable pouches made of metal and plastic that doesn’t biodegrade. This means that more than 1.6 billion pouches consumed just in the US annually are clogging up the oceans, adding to the Great Garbage Patch, suffocating marine life, and ruining the planet. Capri Sun is no innocent beverage for children, it’s a toxic environmental disaster – can you help tell Kraft to change their ways?

Our oceans not only provide ample food for us when they are in peak condition, but they sustain life on this planet. In a visual representation experiment of the garbage patches around the world’s oceans, we can see just how seriously we’ve affected our oceans through Big Ag practices, littering, corporate disregard, and additional environmentally unfriendly practices which affect Mother Nature’s ‘womb.’