Trash
Here’s Why Trump Needs To Toss His General’s Plans In The Trash Immediately
(RPI) By the end of this month, Defense Secretary James Mattis and National Security Advisor HR McMaster will deliver to President Trump their plans for military escalations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. President Trump would be wise to rip the plans up and send his national security team back to the drawing board – or replace them.
20-Year-Old’s Company Is Going to Eliminate 50% of the Pacific Garbage Patch by 2020
Twenty-year-old Boyan Slat and his company The Ocean Cleanup have announced they will be able to eliminate fifty percent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2020.
Environmentalist Wears Trash to Open the Public’s Eyes
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.
Cops Force Activist to Stop Cleaning Up Neighborhood Trash Left To Rot by City
(ANTIMEDIA) Government intrusion into the lives of private citizens knows no bounds.
Will There be more Plastic than Fish in the Ocean by 2050?
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.
We Throw so Much Plastic into the Ocean That Now We’re Literally Eating It
All the plastic humans are dumping into the ocean ultimately ends up in our stomachs.
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Huge Discovery: Bacterium that “Eats” Plastic Waste
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.
IKEA may Nix Use of Environmentally-Destructive Styrofoam
Your future purchases from IKEA may come encased in packaging that could help feed your tomatoes or make the red in your roses a little bit deeper.
Source: SlideShare
IKEA is tossing around the idea of phasing out polystyrene and replacing it with mycelium packaging made by Evocative Design, which is both compostable and biodegradable. Mycelium is made from the root structure of mushrooms, plus agricultural waste like corn husks and stalks.
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