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For Earth Day: Count Your Plastic and Make it Count
In Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, I describe how I planned to spend a day not touching any plastic, only to be foiled first thing that morning by my plastic toilet seat. So I spent the day making a list … Continue reading
Weird plastic fads
Thankfully this one failed. Why, you may ask, are these women wearing plastic beaks? To protect their faces from falling snow! Luckily, in case of cone-failure we could always fall back on the hat.
News from the South Pacific
Earlier this week I spoke by satellite phone with Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins, co-founders of 5 Gyres, an organization created to do research and public education on the problem of plastic pollution. By now, the “garbage patch” in the … Continue reading