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Our Plastic Addiction


Curbing our Addiction to Plastics - Earthwise Aware

There are solutions to reduce your plastic dependency, in turn reducing waste, saving our wildlife, and reducing your carbon footprint on our planet.

How Our Plastics Addiction Is Choking The Planet | The Momentum

At every step of the plastic supply chain, greenhouse gases are emitted. Extracting and transporting the fossil fuels needed to make plastic is carbon-intensive ...

Humans Have a Plastic Addiction | WIRED

Lauren Goode: Oh my God. Michael Calore: What are you talking about when we use the word microplastics? Matt Simon: Sure. As it's defined among ...

Is the Tide Turning on Our Plastic Addiction? - NRDC

Is the Tide Turning on Our Plastic Addiction? For the oceans' sake, we'd better hope so. June 8, 2018. Workers removing nearly 18 pounds of plastic bags ...

Our addiction to plastic - Museums Victoria

Plastic is everywhere. We use it to create clothing, technology, toys, transport, packaging, money, even paint. There's almost nothing in our daily lives that ...

Life on Planet Plastic: The Health Risks of our Plastic Addiction - Blog

Chemicals and additives in plastics seep into whatever a plastic item comes in contact with, whether that's food, liquids, or your skin.

Breaking Up With Our Plastic Addiction: Why And How? - faircado

Eat fresh foods, avoid processed & packaged foods. Another way to greatly reduce your waste and plastic addiction is to eat fresh food. Not only ...

From Fossil Fuels to Plastic Addiction: Unveiling the Hidden Link ...

The negative impacts of plastics are far reaching and dangerous. It is no secret fossil fuel use is incredibly harmful to our world, and as ...

Managing Our Plastic Addiction - IFANCA

Managing Our Plastic Addiction. Asma Jarad. June 30, 2019. Copied! Plastic water bottle pollution in the ocean. The invention of synthetic plastic in 1907 ...

Single-Use Plastics 101 - NRDC

These modern conveniences hardly register in our minds, but they come with a steep environmental price. Our plastics addiction has evolved into ...

End Plastic Addiction | Turtle Island Restoration Network

From a grocery store trip to applying lotions, our plastic consumption is omnipresent. Due to their chemical composition, all plastics take from 450-1000 ...

The missing science: Could our addiction to plastic be poisoning us?

The ubiquity of plastics, and the increasing evidence that we are ingesting many of them in microplastic form, demands a closer examination of the health ...

Humanity's Plastic Addiction - Causes and Solutions - Reddit

Our plastic addiction has been pushed on us by the plastics-focused industries (fossil fuel, plastics, packaging, beverage) - by far the worst pollution ...

Kicking our plastic addiction

The sheer volume of plastic trash now littering Earth has become impossible to ignore. It's time for environmentalists, policymakers and elected officials to ...

This Novel Recyclable Polymer Might Finally Rid Us Of Our Plastic ...

This Novel Recyclable Polymer Might Finally Rid Us Of Our Plastic Addiction. A new class of recyclable polymer materials could one day help ...

The Complexities and Costs of Our Plastic Addiction

Every “life cyle” step of plastic—from its production, refinement, and distribution to its disposal—creates hazards that are toxic to the environment and to ...

Our Plastic Addiction: 5 Ways To Kick the Habit - Green That Life

Plastics producers promote recycling to justify continued production and sustain humanity's plastic addiction. If you've ever stopped to ...

Our single use plastic addiction | News - Conservation Guide

These single use plastics infiltrate our everyday lives and we now consider them a normality and a convenience. It is our addiction to these ...

How do we break our addiction to plastic? | University of California

The research, which appears in the journal Science Advances, provides the first global analysis of the production, use and fate of all plastics ever made.

BBC Learning English - Curbing our plastic addiction

Rob and Neil discuss the dilemma of going plastic free and hear why Britain's shopping culture makes it hard to do.