#plastic-pollution

The outlook is grim, but a new report lays out a path to nearly eradicate plastic packaging pollution within the next 15 years.

 ♻️🐙 Scientists in Japan have waved a biodegradable magic wand over the global plastic nightmare. In collaboration with the University of Tokyo and RIKEN, they’ve conjured up a plastic that vanishes in seawater within hours and ghost-walks out of soil in just 10 days. Same strength, same flexibility, minus the 400-year guilt trip. Sayonara, six-pack rings! 🧪 Sea-Melting Sorcery or Just Finally…

“Are we ready to open next week, Cole?” Cole Wilkes, the Global Human Resources Director, was working hard to hire new staff to open their latest hub facility, a segment of their production line that would utilize cheap U.S. labor to assemble each of the pieces needed to complete a variety of products overseas. RDF Plastics, which would end up being Emulsion Plastics, executive-level leadership…

Plastic-eating bugs? It’s a great story – but there’s a sting in the tail

GR: People have often tried to import species to solve problems or increase productivity. Many times, unintended consequences have proven disastrous as the imported species spread beyond the objective and replaced local plants and animals. [Here’s an example from my research.] The story below gives another example for a current problem. You’d need an awful lot of Wax Moth caterpillars to make a…