#waste
Plastic rainfall
Plastic Cloud: New Study Analyzes Airborne Microplastics in Clouds
"Large amounts of microplastics are ingested or inhaled by humans and animals alike and have been detected in multiple organs such as lung, heart, blood, placenta, and feces."
https://www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/78501
#plastic #airborne #waste #microplastics #AMPs #ocean #marine #atmosphere #biosphere #clouds #rain #ecosystems #contamination #pollution
This must be the smallest Coca-Cola bottle I have ever seen #Coke #packaging #waste
#supermarketgems
#Supermarktjuwelen
Some coffee shops offer incentives for bringing your own mugs. What percentage of customers participate at such stores?
Today is International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste!
https://www.fao.org/international-day-awareness-food-loss-waste/en
#FLWDay #FLWDay2023 #Food #FoodLoss #FoodWaste #Loss #Waste
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#MeisterKonfus sagt, entwerfe Arbeitssysteme stets so, dass die Zusammenarbeit hin zu guten Ergebnissen maximal behindert wird. Wir wollen #Verschwendung steigern, nicht vermeiden.
#Konfus says, always design work systems in a way that maximally hinders collaboration towards good results. We want to increase #waste, not avoid it.
#OnThisDay The British Mandate for #Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine (1923).
Birth Anniversary of Enrico Fermi (1901) - creator of the world's first #Nuclear #Reactor.
Today is World #HeartDay and International Day of Awareness on #Food Loss and #Waste Reduction.
Marine plastic waste can spread antimicrobial resistance #marine #environment #plastic #waste https://phys.org/news/2023-09-marine-plastic-antimicrobial-resistance.html
#MeisterKonfus sagt, stelle stets sicher, dass keinerlei Informationen über die Bedürfnisse, Erwartungen und Bedarfe von rechts nach links im Prozess fließen, den dies könnte dazu führen, dass #Verbesserungen eingeführt werden und wäre der #Verschwendung abträglich.
#Konfus says always make sure that no information about needs, expectations and demands flows from the right to the left of the process, as this could lead to #improvements being introduced and would be detrimental to #waste
"Tire emissions from electric vehicles are 20 percent higher than those from fossil-fuel vehicles." https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemicals #Cities #MarinePollution #Waste #Water #PublicHealth #Pollution #autokorrektur #tempo30 #microplastic #feinstaub #fff #UrbanHeatIsland
sweet centre / ham bone
#litter #waste #plastic #plasticpollution #anthropocene #latestagecapitalism #foundwords
after: one millionth of the #waste left behind by the #berlinmarathon ready to be transformed into blossoms in my #upcycling #workshop#beforeandafter #waste
before: one millionth of the #waste left behind by the #berlinmarathon #beforeandafter #waste #upcycling #workshop
Are your #planning and #estimating methods leading to #value or generating #waste?
In this short video, Agile Velocity transformation coach Kim Antelo shares a better approach to enabling delivery
#MeisterKonfus sagt, #Mitarbeitende, die ihr Handwerk beherrschen und obendrein #Problemlösungskompetenzen besitzen, stellen ein Risiko für #Verschwendung dar. Vermeide daher Kenner und Könner mit Aufgaben zu betrauen.
#Konfus says #employees who know their craft and have #problem-solving skills on top of that are a risk for #waste. Therefore, avoid entrusting tasks to experts.
A Japanese chemical manufacturing company has been working on creating liquid biomethane from cow waste to be used as rocket fuel, potentially providing a solution for dairy farmers grappling with disposal challenges. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/18/japan/science-health/space-rockets-fuel-cow-waste/?utm_content=bufferfd711&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #sciencehealth #animals #waste #energy #renewables #space #rockets
@arstechnica why in the hell is the picture heralding this new era showing the person using a gambling program... like of all the things they could be doing it's bloody gambling #waste #gambling
Haha –one day after picking up lots of #waste after the #berlinmarathon for my next #upcycling #workshop I have pretty sore muscles 😔 #aftermath
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"Single-use take-away cups of paper are as toxic to aquatic midge larvae as plastic cups"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749123008382
#MeisterKonfus sagt, am Ort des Geschehens finden sich die meisten Hinweise für #Verbesserungen. Daher begebe Dich daher niemals dorthin. Treffe Deine Entscheidungen immer ohne diejenigen, die am Ort des Geschehens wirken. Dies trägt zur #Maximierung der #Verschwendung bei.
#Konfus says that the most clues for #improvements can be found at the place of action. Therefore, never go there. Always make your decisions without those who work at the scene. This helps to #maximise #waste.
Employees of #Ecology and #Environment playing #volleyball in #Atlanta in 1983 to get used to their #toxic #waste haz suits.
Ausbeute: ein Millionstel des vom #berlinmarathon hinterlassenen #Müll #aftermath #waste #upcycling #workshop
A new perspective: going for a walk after the #berlinmarathon collecting #waste for the next #upcycling workshop https://www.juligudehus.net/en/rest-art-workshop together with the world's best husband #aftermath
Wastiary: A bestiary of waste
Absolutely brilliant idea to write about waste in the style of a medieval (or #TTRPG) bestiary.
I've just scratched the surface but it's so well done.
Making it personal. Globally. Cost savings for business. There is great profit to be had in dumping toxins and waste into nature. Do we dump our garbage in the streets?
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141312
#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #Climate #Profits #Business #HumanRights #Nature #Science #UN #Waste #Health #Humanity #Present #Past #Future #NextGeneration
Home delivery is really convenient thing.
However sending a single button (can you find it in photo?) in a home delivered package is really not a cool and is a completely waste of limited resources.
This is from order of multiple items, but the seller decided to pack this button in it's own package and ship it separately.
#Italy is toying with the idea of #nuclear power except Italians said no to nuclear power in a 1987 referendum and the country still has not found a suitable location for radioactive #waste (article in Italian) #energy https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2023/09/21/nucleare-il-governo-meloni-non-fa-i-conti-col-referendum-e-le-scorie-del-passato-punta-tutto-sui-mini-reattori-lesperto-idea-terrificante/7285496/
A new study has found that Earth's resilience has been pushed far beyond the "safe operating space" that keeps the world liveable for most species, including our own. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2023/09/14/earth-science/human-activity-earth-resilience/?utm_content=bufferbfe67&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #environment #earthscience #climatechange #oceans #forests #environment #waste #pollution
I think that all employees and volunteers working at @restartproject should get a #gold ring made from #recycled #electronics #waste. Hopefully everyone will still #repair rather than break items for gold 😂 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230904-how-the-royal-mint-is-turning-electronic-waste-into-gold
“Well,” thinks Olive, “if Rishi can gad about around the UK in a chopper, surely I can take a 158-seat airplane to New York…”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/20/oliver-dowden-raf-voyager-plane-flight-un-new-york
#MeisterKonfus sagt, wer #Verschwendung aufbauen will, muss verhindern, das Kennen und Können in der Organisation aufgebaut wird. Den, wer weiß, wie es geht und wie man es besser machen kann, neigt dazu, #Verbesserungen einzuführen.
#Konfus says that those who want to build up #waste must prevent knowledge and skills from being built up in the organisation. Those who know how to do it and how to do it better tend to introduce #improvements.
What Mastodon is doing is #environmentalVandalism, and an excoriating #waste of internet resources and bandwidth.
We really did not expect this.
It's also socially irresponsible as smaller operators struggle to cope with M'don's demands. Our instance for example is being forced to shutdown due to being unable to handle the $40/month cost.
It means more #centralisation. We're back at square one, because most users tolerated M'don bringing anti-features to #Fediverse.
#Announcement - Unfiltered.Coop is co-hosting an event on #labor, #energy, #waste, with journalists, unions & academia, in-person in #Tokyo and virtually, Oct 1st.
Details: https://aajaasiawithunfiltered.peatix.com/
Would love to see some @SocialCoop members joining @emi @Matt_Noyes @ntnsndr @chiematsumoto please share!
#Cuba’s underground #Apple technicians are thriving | @restofworld
In the land of the U.S. #embargo, Cuba’s Apple technicians are kings.
“We Cubans are used to doing more with less,” Pupo Hondal told #RestOfWorld. “Each #Mac we successfully fix is a Mac we rescue from being discarded as #waste — and even those we can’t fix, find new purpose in saving others. There’s a magic in fixing what others would have otherwise discarded.”
Ellen MacArthur Foundation launches its first circular design strategy
Want to protect the #environment? Reduce #plastic #waste? Melt things with #lasers? ⚠️ The amazing @plastacs are running a £25 workshop on turning bottle tops into gorgeous notebook covers – lots of hands on training and advice, for you to do all sorts of awesome stuff with waste plastic in the future. Saturday 7th October at @DoESLiverpool 👉 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/702453416077 #weeknotes #reuse #recycle
An old Story for Young people that maybe Not know it yet. And still something that Just be fixed in our society If we want humanity to survive.
"First-in-the-nation law will compel major companies to publicly disclose their #carbon dioxide emissions & could have national repercussions.
The new law will require abt 5,000 companies to report the amt of greenhouse gas pollution directly emitted by their operations plus the amt of indirect #emissions from things like employee travel, #waste disposal & supply chains." #GavinNewsom
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/climate/california-climate-disclosure-law.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20230918&instance_id=103023&nl=the-morning®i_id=144968602&segment_id=145036&te=1&user_id=f2f4b1162190f8fa76854ac54d8f552e
#MeisterKonfus sagt, nicht das Erreichen #Organisationszwecks aus Sicht Deiner Kunden als Ziel sollte im Fokus stehen, sondern ausschließlich das Erreichen der Finanzziele und das Eigeninteresse. Das ist wichtiger Beitrag, um die #Verschwendung zu maximieren.
#Konfus says that the focus should not be on achieving #organisationalpurpose from your clients' point of view, but solely on achieving financial goals and self-interest. This is important contribution to maximise #waste.
There are some very good reasons to oppose this scheme.
- it incentivises waste production
- toxic pollution and climate emissions
- toxic ash disposal
- more trucking of rubbish
The burning question on waste to energy incineration
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018907043/the-burning-question-on-rubbish
#nzpol #newzealand #climatechange #waste #ToxicWaste #w2e #wastetoenergy #Incineration
How does #art come into being for me? Mostly by looking. By shifting the #perspective while observing, by #connotations.
A package is supposed to go into the recycling bin. A strip of words from another one. I see them white, painted with gesso. As a basket with a handle. It should overflow with paper #butterflies. #Humans and their making of #species #waste. #Beauty. Longing. Possibilities.
#ArtistsOfMastodon #ArtInProcess #inspirations #PaperArt
2/2 For those interested in France’s Anti-waste and Circular Economy Law here an English source
https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-examples/frances-anti-waste-and-circular-economy-law #antiWaste #noWaste #CircularEconomy #economy #waste #France
1/2 I so often read in social media that #humanity cannot #change, that it is incurably bad. The impression may arise when one no longer looks at the efforts to do good in global catastrophes. France now not only has an internationally groundbreaking package of laws on #waste avoidance but this is also presented in an utterly positive light. Doing without #plastic is not an ascetic renunciation, but a liberation, a great trend: it makes you feel good. People change, if we help them. #goodNews
What do you know about the Waste Hierarchy??
Russia has outlawed the work of Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature, branding them and dozens of other groups "undesirable." Teen eco-activists are now taking on the fight for the future. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/01/world/society/russia-eco-activists-fight/?utm_content=buffere40ca&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #worldnews #society #russia #environment #waste #pollution
friends, i have a few more copies left of my zine series about ~The Great Garbage Continuum!~
"Avoid angry garbage spirits and junk piles run amok in this visual tour of the strange lands beyond the (trash) bin. In a world overflowing with people-made stuff, understanding these flows of unwanted materials will be crucial to the thousand-year cleanup we're going to need next."
(plus, almost all the art was generated with #AI / #ML (deepdreamgenerator.com), so you can compare how well i did compared to the jokers over at californiaforever.com)
the set of 6 color zines is $15: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1490501146/zine-pack-great-garbage-continuum-pack
#art #garbage #trash #junk #waste #rubbish #recycling #environment #ecology #cyberpunk #solarpunk #zines
When an idea of #fire has become obsolete and symbols seem cynical: "History might judge #BurningMan more favorably if instead of celebrating #burning things down, the participants came together to rebuild a damaged planet." https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/burning-man-climate-change-18335011.php
Well, meanwhile nature reacted: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/02/burning-man-festival-mud-trapped-shelter-in-place
#wildfires #climateemergency #greenwashing #pollution #waste #CO2 #festivals
Question; how do we recycle old tents? I’ve searched and it seems this is not done at scale via any easy to reach service. Why not, or am I missing something? Let’s sort this. Please re-blog to seek answers far and wide. I guess there’s a huge difference in quality between “single use festival tents” and solid camping kit. Where’s the industry on this? #camping #circulareconomy #recycling #waste https://theconversation.com/the-environmental-cost-of-abandoning-your-tent-at-a-music-festival-120198
The book _Year of No Garbage_ by Eve O. Schaub comes out of the corner swinging.
Big Tech companies are promoting waste solutions that are actually scams, according to a new report. The report exposes how companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google are greenwashing their environmental impact by using misleading metrics, lobbying against regulations, and outsourcing their waste to developing countries. The report calls for more transparency and accountability from Big Tech and urges consumers to demand better practices. #bigtech #waste #greenwashing
France rolls out a plan to recover wastewater amid crippling drought.
The French government is to announce measures this week outlining the future of water recycling. It hopes the plan will resolve recurring water shortages and drought across a country that has been particularly affected by global warming.
In 2005, a global issue sparked a revolutionary idea. Our founders – Johanna, Mikko, and Michael – were driven to tackle the overwhelming amount of #waste in the supply chain. They founded RELEX Solutions, an AI-driven, machine learning platform to do that and more.
📈 What We Do: We optimize #retail planning and supply chains worldwide, supporting hundreds of retailers and distributors.
🚀 Our Mission: To strive to reduce waste and make our planet a better place for future generations.
#Coffee offers performance boost for #concrete - #RMITUniversity
"Lead author Dr Rajeev Roychand from RMIT University said the team developed a technique to make concrete 30% stronger by turning #waste coffee grounds into #biochar, using a low-energy process without oxygen at 350 degrees Celsius."
https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2023/aug/coffee-concrete
I missed this last month: France has launched an initiative to reduce textile waste by paying people to repair their clothes instead of throwing them out.
Starting October, people will be able to claim between €6 and €25 of the cost of mending clothes and shoes. The money will come from a €154 million fund and is meant to support businesses in offering more apparel repair services.
Cool stuff! 🧵🪡
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#sustainability #fashion #waste #environment #france #repair
🐝 Artist: #bOrdalo_IIx #Bordallo in City: #Lisbon LX Factory, Portugal 🇵🇹 - Title: "Bee" - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural made from plastic #Waste #Painting #Sculpture #TrashArt #Installation #Bee 🍯 #RecyclingArt #Classics ♻️
Interesting how a landfill that was closed 10 years ago still produces methane.
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Puente Hills Landfill Gas-to-Energy Facility has been in full commercial operation since January 1987 and has remained on-line 95 percent of the time. Currently, it exports approximately 23 MW of electricity that is sold to the Southern California Public Power Authority.
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🚭 Please boost if you want @EU_Commission to start discussing a #ban of #disposable #ecigarette
#vaping single use e-cig is becoming a real issue among young people, it increases #ewaste and does harm nature by releasing harmful substances.
#waste #cigarettes #vape #ecigs #green #ForNature #OceanEU #environment
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Puente Hills Landfill was the largest landfill in the United States, rising 500 feet (150 meters) high and covering 700 acres (2.8 km2). Originally opened in 1957 in a back canyon in the Puente Hills, the landfill was made to meet the demands of urbanization and waste-disposal east of Los Angeles. By the 1990s, the landfill became an artificial mountain visible around the San Gabriel Valley region.
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#MeisterKonfus sagt, niemals dürfen einmal getroffene #Entscheidungen, #Regeln und #Standards hinterfragt werden. Dies könnte sonst dazu führen, dass #Verschwendung aufgedeckt und #Verbesserungen entwickelt werden.
#Konfus says never question #decisions, #rules and #standards once made. This could otherwise lead to #waste being uncovered and #improvements being developed.
Guten Morgen meine #Mastonauten, als ich gestern Nacht auf dem Weg nach Hause war, sah ich dieses Verbrechen. Da fragt man sich doch, welche Unmenschen in #Hannover leben.
Irgendein Irrer, hat doch glatt die Verpackung seiner #Playstation5 auf den Müll geworten 😱
#gaming #waste #gamer #GeschichtenAusHannover #Daddeln #Videoospiele #Gaming
#Consultancy Notice – Development of a Regional #Training Needs #Assessment for Multilateral #Environmental Agreements
OBJECTIVE: to address the sound #management of chemicals & #waste in Least Developed Countries ( #LDCs ) and Small Island Developing States ( #SIDS ).
- Open to: Regional and International Experts
- Duration: Nine (9) months
- Start date: November 2023
- Language: #English
- Deadline: 25th September 2023
+INFO: https://www.bcrc-caribbean.org/opportunities/consultancy-notice-tna-meas/
#Russia profiting off #US reliance on #nuclear fuel
Aug 11, 2023
"Russia sold about $1.7 billion in nuclear products to firms in the U.S. and #Europe, according to trade data and experts. The purchases occurred as the West has leveled stiff sanctions on Moscow over its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, blocking imports of such Russian staples as oil, gas, vodka and caviar.
"The West has been reluctant to target Russia’s nuclear exports, however, because they play key roles in keeping reactors humming. Russia supplied the U.S. nuclear industry with about 12% of its #uranium last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Europe reported getting about 17% of its uranium in 2022 from Russia.
"Reliance on nuclear power is expected to grow as nations embrace alternatives to fossil fuels. Nuclear power plants produce no emissions, though experts warn that nuclear energy comes with the risk of reactor #meltdowns and the challenge of how to safely store #radioactive #waste. There are about 60 reactors under construction around the world — 300 more are in the planning stages."
https://www.altoonamirror.com/news/2023/08/russia-profiting-off-us-reliance-on-nuclear-fuel/
How Disney's Magical Trash Tubes Ended Up In New York City
At Disney World, the Magic Kingdom uses a system of pneumatic tubes to keep trash out of sight for park visitors. While this was supposed to be the future of waste disposal, only one other place in the US uses something like it on a similar scale: Roosevelt Island in New York City.
BTW, the only #waste of this project are the shoulder pads. I'll reuse the #fabric of the sleeves for #VisibleMending projects or even #collageArt and #artjournaling. #upcycling #SlowFashion I detest #fastFashion #FastFashionSucks #HandicraftsActivism
Decades of encouraging #recycling in the US have crowded out messaging on reducing the amount of plastics and non-recyclable waste.
Many consumers are confused about what can actually be recycled and the confusion allows corporations to avoid responsibility.
Consumers surveyed do recognize that the design phase is the best place to reduce waste.
(New research in Nature Sustainability)
https://theconversation.com/decades-of-public-messages-about-recycling-in-the-us-have-crowded-out-more-sustainable-ways-to-manage-waste-208924
#News #Waste #Conservation #Plastics
friends, my long-awaited new #zine series about the Great Garbage Continuum is live!
"Avoid angry garbage spirits and junk piles run amok in this visual tour of the strange lands beyond the (trash) bin."
All 6 zines + a bonus glossy print of Saint Oscar the Grouch (patron saint of garbage) are available for a mere $15 here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1490501146/zine-pack-great-garbage-continuum-pack
#zines #ArtBiz #ForSale #trash #garbage #recycling #environment #earth #waste #ecology #cyberpunk #solarpunk #art
Want to help people directly in your area? Have too much stuff in your closets, attic, garage? Register for a freecycle account and give that stuff AWAY. There are ppl on here asking for everything. It won't cost you a dime:
#recycle #upcycle #climate #SJW #socialJustice #poverty #circularEconomy #waste #ewaste
The outright nerve of HP to greenwash disposable ink cartridges #greenwashing #disposablesociety #waste #plastics
New Zealand bans plastic bags for fresh produce in supermarkets - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66083337
Excellent!
There was a company in #Utah that rebuilt and serviced obsolete #Apple #Lisa #computers and #AAPL used hired goons repossess them and took them to a dump and destroyed them. https://youtu.be/rZjbNWgsDt8 @theverge
I'm embarrassed to have EVER given money to $AAPL!
#reduceReuseRecycle #ewaste #rightToRepair #reduce #reuse #recycle #waste #mac #macOS #visionPro #visionOS #iOS #iPhone #iWatch #M2 #M2Pro #M2Max #MacPro #iPad #iPadOS
EXCLUSIVE: Waste firms and councils accused of ‘greenwashing’ with false claims over burning rubbish for energy.
Some ‘renewable’ UK incinerators are more polluting than coal stations
#UK #Environment #Climatechange #NetZero #Incinerators #energy #waste #sustainability #CO2 #greenwashing #coal
🦔 Artist: #bOrdalo_ii #Bordallo in City: #Montreal Canada 🇨🇦 - Title: "Hedgehog" - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural made from plastic #Waste #Painting #Sculpture #TrashArt #Installation #Hedgehog #RecyclingArt #GoodMorning !☕🥐
🐰Artist: #bOrdalo_ii #Bordallo in City: #Toronto Canada 🇨🇦 - Title: "Hare" - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural Made from plastic #Waste - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Painting #Installation #Rabbit #RecyclingArt #TrashArt
#GoodMorning !☕🥐
I don't think this is the right way to frame this problem.
Our first job is to live long enough that such concerns matter. If we don't do something quickly, we won't have that chance.
That's why I also support the use of nuclear where other tech is not feasible. What matters most is to stop fossil fuels.
If solar panels get us far enough to be worrying about how to replace them, or if nuclear gets us far enough to worry about waste disposal, we'll be in better shape than we are now. There are serious short-term milestones we have to hit to avoid both near-term catastrophes of various kinds and falling over tipping points that lock us into long-term problems in nature itself.
I also think this kind of fearmongering is the kind of stuff you expect to see funded by the oil industry as a reason to delay switching. Any reason for delay favors short-term coal & oil profits but not the survival of the human race.
No one promised us that surviving the Climate Crisis would be easy or even without sacrifice or difficulty. This idea that "oops, this has issues" is a reason not to do it needs to be dispensed with. We can't find the right path by disproving all the others. That will find no paths. There will be issues. But the point is to get the big things done and then to address the issues that remain.
#ClimateCrisis #Climate #Solar #SolarPower #Power #Sustainability #Environment #Society #Planning #Delay #FossilFuels #Nuclear #Waste #WasteDisposal #Carbon
As talks start this week on a global plastics treaty, debate is emerging between countries wanting to limit production and the petrochemical industry favoring recycling as the solution to plastic waste. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/29/world/plastics-treaty-recycling/?utm_content=bufferbedcb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #worldnews #un #recycling #waste #plastic #environment
Who Said Recycling Was Green?
Research out of #Scotland suggests that the chopping, shredding and washing of #plastic in r#ecycling facilities may turn as much as six to 13 percent of incoming #waste into #microplastics—tiny, toxic particles that are an emerging and ubiquitous #environmental #health concern for the #planet and #people.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16052023/recycling-plastic-microplastics-waste/