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Nanoplastics are synthetic polymers that can be toxic to human health. Nanoplastics are believed to be toxic since their smaller size makes it easier for them to enter the human.

No longer can you give a loved one a beautifully displayed array of chocolates from Fortnum & Mason, for the eco-misers have decreed that plastic is out and the sweets must henceforth be hidden beneath boring cardboard.
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Consumers face rising prices, as the British Retail Consortium warns that the Government's new bottle recycling scheme will cost retailers ten times the amount officials previously claimed.
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It was a good live crowd — over a hundred folk, November 30, at Hatfield’s new classroom building, Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building Auditorium. And another 100 in “attendance” on the Zoom Doom. I’m a member of the  Cetacean Society International, and the American Cetacean Society, and unfortunately for the Oregon group, their meetings and […]
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The lead author of the study warned that the steep decline could get to an irreversible point. Other studies have linked low sperm counts to obesity, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, and exposure to certain chemicals and pesticides.

Recycling plastic has wasted vast sums on an enterprise that has been harmful to the environment as well as to humanity, says John Tierney, and now even Greenpeace has admitted the truth on this.
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Bruce Lee said: I don’t fear the man who has 10,000 kicks, I fear the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times. — Wisdom for the Way And there is cultural and retail and consumer insanity doing the same thing over and over and over expecting different results, as in doing the same wrong […]
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For the first time, a significant loss at the base of the marine food web has been detected. The Scottish research vessel Capepod reported the findings in equatorial waters of the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a disturbing discovery, but first a look at the marine food web, starting with the lowest organisms: (1) phytoplankton – plant-like […]
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Capitalism’s Deadly Quartet — Food, Plastic, Air, Weathering! The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. — Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) Definition: An ecological bridge between land and sea … the wrack line. I’ve been looking at the unimagined […]
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Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War.
— Plato.