Guest “I couldn’t make this sort of schist up, if I was trying” by David Middleton Texas Freeze Triggers Global Plastics ShortageNumerous chemical plants were shut down as state lost…
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Simulated sunlight reveals how 98% of plastics at sea go missing each year
Study explores removal mechanisms, microbial impacts and lifetimes of select microplastics on the ocean surface Florida Atlantic University A schematic figure of plastic photo-dissolution and plastic dissolved organic carbon (DOC)…
Ocean Cleanup device breaks down, well before ridding Pacific of plastics
From NBCNEWS Dutch inventor Boyan Slat said he still believed his $360 million plan could work. The Ocean Cleanup device floating in a lagoon in Alameda, California, in August 2018.The…
Plastic is so cool! "Plastic chunks on Arctic ice show how far pollution has spread." Ohhhhhh noooooooo!!!
Guest ridicule by David Middleton The Grauniad: The gift that keeps on giving! A British-led expedition has discovered sizeable chunks of polystyrene lying on remote frozen ice floes in the…
Plastics Yet Again
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The New York Times has treated us to another episode of the Great Plastics-Last-Forever Urban Legend in their recent article “The Immense, Eternal Footprint…
Big Numbers, Small Numbers
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I read a paper today that said that there are no less than 270,000,000 kilograms of plastic in the ocean, which is about half a…
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