Plastics http://plasticstories.posterous.com Plastics are forever posterous.com Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:17:00 -0700 Can We Keep Plastic Pollution Out of Our Oceans? http://plasticstories.posterous.com/can-we-keep-plastic-pollution-out-of-our-ocea http://plasticstories.posterous.com/can-we-keep-plastic-pollution-out-of-our-ocea

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Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco
                On April 16 we celebrate California Oceans Day, an annual event when ocean lovers and leaders from across the state come together to advocate for healthier oceans.  This year, we’re focusing on solutions to the growing problem of plastic pollution that litters our beaches, rivers, lakes and oceans.
A Broken System
Today, we produce far more plastic waste than can be recovered or recycled.  As a result, plastic now pollutes the farthest reaches of the world’s oceans – from the deep seabed of the Arctic, to once-pristine coasts, to local riverside parks and distant islands.  While this is a global problem, we can start with solutions here at home.  Consumers can make better choices, but producers of plastics need to make changes too.

AB 521: A Smarter System
That’s the idea behind Assembly Bill 521, introduced by Assembly Member Ben Hueso and Senator Mark Stone.  This bill would makes producers of plastic products (particularly single-use packaging) do their fair share to keep plastic out of our oceans, rivers, and lakes.  It will encourage industry to make smarter, less polluting products, and it will save taxpayers and local governments money by reducing waste management, litter cleanup and recycling costs.
As I have blogged before, the plastic that pollutes our oceans and waterways has severe impacts on our environment and our economy.  From the peer-reviewed scientific literature, we know that seabirds, whales, sea turtles and other marine life are eating marine plastic pollution and dying from choking, intestinal blockage and starvation.  Scientists are investigating the long-term impacts of toxic pollutants absorbed, transported, and consumed by fish and other marine life, including the potential effects on human health.
This pollution also causes substantial costs to taxpayers and local governments that must clean this trash off of beaches and streets to protect public health, prevent flooding from trash-blocked storm drains, and avoid lost tourism revenue from filthy beaches.  A 2012 report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that California’s coastal cities and counties spend about $420 million each year to combat litter and curtail marine debris.  
AB 521 would require California to adopt a statewide goal of reducing marine plastic pollution by 75% by 2020 and by 95% by 2025. The bill would direct CalRecycle, in coordination with the California Ocean Protection Council and the State Water Board, to establish a program that would require producers of plastic pollution to meet these targets within established timeframes.  Agencies offer guidance on what activities -- such as improved product design and support for increased recycling -- can be included in the plans.  But rather than establishing a new layer of bureaucracy, producers have flexibility to determine the methods that work best for them to achieve the established targets.
Just as producers should do their fair share to stop plastic pollution, individuals must also do their part by choosing reusable rather than disposable materials, recycling whenever possible, and never littering.  There are some plastic items -- particularly single-use plastic bags and foam takeout containers -- that have been banned by more than 70 cities and counties in California. 
Senator Alex Padilla’s SB 405 and Assembly Member Marc Levine’s AB 158 would ban plastic bags around the state. NRDC supports these bills because they deal with a product for which there are readily available alternatives – such as reusable bags and recycled content paper bags – and because the problems caused by plastic bags outweigh their utility.  Plastic bags easily blow away into the environment and have serious impacts on marine life: bags are mistaken for jelly fish and easily swallowed by turtles and whales, suffocating or becoming stuck in their stomachs.  Plastic bags are difficult to recycle, and they cause major problems for recycling facilities, jamming up the recycling machinery and contaminating bales of otherwise recyclable materials. 
While we support the plastic bag controls, we also know that we can’t ban every type of plastic that ends up in the ocean: that’s where AB 521 comes in.  AB 521 would enhance, expand, and coordinate existing local and state marine plastic pollution prevention measures and provide urgently needed resources to achieve a comprehensive solution to this problem.  We’re excited to share this bill at Oceans Day, and we look forward to great progress under the leadership of legislators such as Assembly Member Stone and Senator Hueso.

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:32:19 -0700 Puny plastic particles mar Lake Erie’s waters http://plasticstories.posterous.com/puny-plastic-particles-mar-lake-eries-waters http://plasticstories.posterous.com/puny-plastic-particles-mar-lake-eries-waters

Puny plastic particles mar Lake Erie’s waters

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349620/title/Puny_plastic_particles_mar_Lake_Eries_waters

Polymer trash is laden with pollutants

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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:07:06 -0700 The Fallacy of Cleaning the Gyres of Plastic with a Floating ‘Ocean Cleanup Array’ http://plasticstories.posterous.com/the-fallacy-of-cleaning-the-gyres-of-plastic http://plasticstories.posterous.com/the-fallacy-of-cleaning-the-gyres-of-plastic

The Fallacy of Cleaning the Gyres of Plastic with a Floating ‘Ocean Cleanup Array’

http://ecowatch.com/2013/fallacy-cleaning-gyres-of-plastic-with-ocean-cleanup-array/

5 GYRES — The solution to this problem isn’t elegant, and there exists no silver bullet. The first step in solving the problem is to personally lower your plastic consumption. The next steps are to get involved in cleanups, get involved in campaigns to ...

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Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:08:23 -0800 Think Beyond Plastic: Where Do We Go From Here? http://plasticstories.posterous.com/think-beyond-plastic-where-do-we-go-from-here http://plasticstories.posterous.com/think-beyond-plastic-where-do-we-go-from-here

http://www.globalpossibilities.org/think-beyond-plastic-where-do-we-go-from-here/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=think-beyond-plastic-where-do-we-go-from-here

Matthew Spiegl
Lawyer, Ocean Advocate
Posted: 03/01/2013 10:39 am
We’ve reached a plastic fork in the road; the choice we make, the direction we turn, and the path we follow, will determine our environmental journey and the ultimate fate of our planet, along with those who will inherit it — our children, the next generation.
When I think about where my generation has come from, I’m reminded of a young President of the United States who understood the challenges that were not only facing our nation, but our planet as well. President John F. Kennedy said, “If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.”
If you have never heard President Kennedy’s speech at Rice University on Sept. 12, 1962, then take a few minutes to do so. If you remember it, listen to it again; share it with your children, your family and friends. We all need to be reminded who we are as people, how far we’ve come as a society, and where we still need to go as a planet.
The words that day electrified our nation and inspired a once younger generation to send a man to the moon and back. But along the way, the scientific industrial complex also found lots and lots and lots of uses for plastic.
While plastic has given us many breakthrough products and uses that have enriched our lives, it has also led to a single-use throw away mentality that finds us buried under an unsustainable and unbearable burden of plastic pollution today.
We have become a society of convenience and exploited plastic without regard for the impact on our environment. We take for granted the fragile balance of earth, air and ocean that serves as our life support system. But what do we do to support it in return?
We need to remember that every piece of plastic ever produced on this tiny blue planet of ours remains in our environment forever; it won’t go away, it will outlive us and the Earth, or what will be left of our little planet, if we don’t change our ways.
The plastic generation has grown older, and as it has, we have become apathetic and lost the once bright promise of Camelot and the “we can do anything attitude” that President Kennedy spoke of that September day at Rice University.
I believe that promise still lives, and I believe the Plastic Pollution Coalition has a great idea and an opportunity to capture another moment in history that will be looked back upon by generations to come as a turning point every bit as significant as sending a man to the Moon — finding environmentally sustainable alternatives to plastic.
If we act responsibly now, and choose the high road while we still can, we won’t have to regret, for the sake our children and grandchildren and their children too, the path not taken.
The Think Beyond Plastic Innovation Competition is an amazing opportunity to rejuvenate the human ingenuity and creativity we are capable of, and to spark a new revolution that takes us far beyond plastic and its limitations.

Think Beyond Plastic Competition from Think Beyond Plastic on Vimeo.

Think Beyond Plastic is a contest for entrepreneurs working on products, services, materials and infrastructure solutions that result in a measurable reduction in plastic pollution.
According to the Plastic Pollution Coalition:
“All ideas must be able to lead to solutions at scale and qualified participants must have a well-articulated idea or operating business that is seed or early-stage. Businesses must have a viable business proposition, as well as sustainable business practices. Eligible contestants will compete for a first prize investment of $50,000 for an existing business, and $10,000 investment for the most innovative business idea.”
Applications are now open but don’t wait, you need to act fast, the deadline for submitting is March 10, 2013. Finalists and winners will be announced during the Think Beyond Plastic event on June 13-14, 2013 at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, Calif.
Earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old and modern plastics as we know them have only been around in last 100 years. Are we really supposed to believe that there is nothing better than plastic; that the science and scientists of the last 100 years have already discovered all there is to discover, invented all there is to invent, and that plastic is the answer?
I don’t buy it and you shouldn’t either!
We have to believe that amazing new materials and products await us. All we need to do is imagine them; to use our minds, to turn our head slightly for a different perspective and to blink our eyes and break the stare and plastic fixation once and for all. Then, and only then, will the wonders of our universe really come within our reach
Think beyond plastic, listen to President Kennedy’s words and become inspired once more — not to conquer space — but to free ourselves from a dependence on single-use plastics. Let’s set out on a bold new endeavor, not to launch man off of our planet, but to establish man as an inseparable part of the planet. Only then will we be able to save both our planet and ourselves.

Follow Matthew Spiegl on Twitter:  www.twitter.com/MatthewSpiegl

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Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:41:49 -0800 The 3-D Printer May Be the Home Appliance of the Future http://plasticstories.posterous.com/the-3-d-printer-may-be-the-home-appliance-of http://plasticstories.posterous.com/the-3-d-printer-may-be-the-home-appliance-of

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One word: plastics. There are still kinks to be worked out, but 3-D printers may be the home appliance of the future.

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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 05:43:56 -0800 Should Common Plastics Be Labeled Toxic? http://plasticstories.posterous.com/should-common-plastics-be-labeled-toxic http://plasticstories.posterous.com/should-common-plastics-be-labeled-toxic

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/should-common-plastics-be-labeled-toxic/

A group of global scientists, writing in Nature this week, argues that some plastics should be classified as hazardous and handled accordingly.

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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:26:11 -0800 Health and environment: A closer look at plastics http://plasticstories.posterous.com/health-and-environment-a-closer-look-at-plast http://plasticstories.posterous.com/health-and-environment-a-closer-look-at-plast

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/dfTI4MpfEOU/130123133928.htm

Scientists have been following the chemical trail of plastics, quantifying their impact on human health and the environment. In a new overview, researchers detail the risks and societal rewards of plastics and describe strategies to mitigate their negative impacts, through reconsideration of plastic composition, use and disposal.

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Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:01:38 -0800 New Desktop Plastic Recycling Device Could Make 3D Printing More Planet-Friendly http://plasticstories.posterous.com/new-desktop-plastic-recycling-device-could-ma http://plasticstories.posterous.com/new-desktop-plastic-recycling-device-could-ma

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The Filabot. Photo by Whitney Trudo. Over the last year or two 3D printing has enjoyed a boom of sorts, as the technology has decreased to a size and price that’s at least somewhat feasible for the average consumer or hobbyist. At the same time the cost of plastic filament — the raw material 3D printers heat and then deposit to fabricate objects — has kept use of the technology beyond the reach of most individuals. But now there’s a new desktop system that not only has the potential to solve the cost-of-filament problem, but to also make 3D printing an ally in efforts to cut down on the average household’s plastic waste. The Filabot was developed by an American college student, Tyler McNaney, who raised raised over three times his initial $10,000 goal with a Kickstarter campaign to get the project off the ground. Aficionados were paying $350 for the first-run version fo the device, which can transform most forms of household plastic waste into filament, as well as recycle failed 3D printing projects for another go-round. Treehugger has the details: The Filabot can turn most types of plastic into filament, including HDPE, LDPE, PET, ABS, PLA and NYLON-101. That means the machine can turn most plastic waste you might have around your house into a building material. Things like milk jugs, soda or water bottles, trays, plastic wraps, water pipes, luggage, packaging, biodegradable plastics and even Legos can become something new. This also means that 3D printed projects gone wrong can also be fed into the Filabot to be made again, giving more room for trial and error without the fear of creating lots of plastic waste. This system lets us imagine a future where we’re not only 3D printing replacements or repair parts for our things instead of throwing them away, but using waste plastic to in the process. Filabot had a successful Kickstarter campaign last year where supporters paid $350 to get a first run version of these machines and the team is slowly working out kinks to get them out to public, though no official price has been released yet. On the other side of the equation — moving 3D printers themselves into the realm of everyday devices Americans keep in their homes — MakerBot recently unveiled a 3D printer for the consumer market. Then Cubify did them one better, releasing a consumer printer that’s smaller, more aesthetic, and, arguably most important, cheaper. To give a few examples of the scale of plastic waste problem: Only 10 percent of the 300 million tons of plastic produced globally each year is recycled. In the United States specifically, 31 million tons were produced in 2010, and only eight percent was recycled. 51 billion plastic bottles are used globally every year, while only one in five are recycled. And plastic bags and cigarettes make up 80 percent of marine litter, and plastic bag litter has become such a huge problem that country’s around the world are taxing or outright banning them. In some ways, the problem may actually be worse in the developed world. For instance, while India’s official government does a poor job dealing with trash, an informal trash economy has sprung up that successfully recycles 56 to 70 percent of the country’s recyclable material. In Europe and the United States, the amount is closer to 30 percent.

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Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:48:27 -0800 Plastics Suck Up Other Toxins: Double Whammy for Marine Life, Gross for Seafood http://plasticstories.posterous.com/plastics-suck-up-other-toxins-double-whammy-f http://plasticstories.posterous.com/plastics-suck-up-other-toxins-double-whammy-f

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Some plastics are worse than others for the marine life that accidentally or intentionally eat them. That's because not only are the plastics themselves toxic but some also act as sponges for other toxins. Unfortunately the most commonly produced plastics also absorb the most chemicals. This according to a new study in early view in Environmental Science & Technology. 

The researchers measured the absorption of persistent organic pollutants (POPs)—specifically polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)—to the five most common types of mass-produced plastics:

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Recycling symbol #1. Example: Water bottles.


High-density polyethylene (HDPE). Recycling symbol #2. Example: Detergent bottles. 


Polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Recycling symbol #3. Example: Clear food packaging. 


Low-density polyethylene (LDPE). Recycling symbol #4. Example: Plastic shopping bags. 


Polypropylene (PP). Recycling symbol #5. Example: Yogurt containers, bottle caps.

From this research it seems that stuff made from polyethylene and polypropylene likely poses a greater risk to marine animals (and presumably the people that eat them) than products made from PET and PVC. Though the authors note that PVC is carcinogenic and toxic all by itself.

Laysan albatross carcass filled with ingested plastic debris, Midway Island. Nearly all carcasses found here have marine debris in them. It's estimated that albatross feed their chicks ~10,000 lbs of marine debris annually on Midway. Andy Collins, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

The authors were also surprised to find how long the plastics kept absorbing the contaminants. At one site they estimated it would take 44 months for high-density polyethylene to stop absorbing POPs.
"As the plastic continues to degrade, it's potentially getting more and more hazardous to organisms as they absorb more and more contaminants," says lead author Chelsea Rochman (UC Davis). 
The research was conducted over a year at five sites in San Diego Bay with pellets of each type of plastic immersed in seawater and retrieved periodically for absorption measurements. 
The paper:

Chelsea M. Rochman, Eunha Hoh, Brian T. Hentschel, and Shawn Kaye. Long-Term Field Measurement of Sorption of Organic Contaminants to Five Types of Plastic Pellets: Implications for Plastic Marine Debris. Environmental Science & Technology (2013). 

 

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:16:51 -0800 Two More Cities Ban Plastic Bags http://plasticstories.posterous.com/two-more-cities-ban-plastic-bags http://plasticstories.posterous.com/two-more-cities-ban-plastic-bags

http://ecowatch.org/2013/cities-ban-plastic-bags/

ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA — This important step forward for Cupertino and Glendale shows yet again that local communities can achieve lasting victories for ocean and environmental health ...

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:15:11 -0800 New Garbage Patch Discovered in the South Pacific Gyre http://plasticstories.posterous.com/new-garbage-patch-discovered-in-the-south-pac http://plasticstories.posterous.com/new-garbage-patch-discovered-in-the-south-pac

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5 GYRES INSTITUTE — Scientists from The 5 Gyres Institute have discovered the first evidence of a “garbage patch,” an accumulation zone of plastic pollution floating in the South Pacific subtropical gyre. The new study ...

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Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:51:26 -0800 City Plastic Bag Bans Continue to Flourish http://plasticstories.posterous.com/city-plastic-bag-bans-continue-to-flourish http://plasticstories.posterous.com/city-plastic-bag-bans-continue-to-flourish

http://ecowatch.org/2012/bag-bans-flourish/

SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — Plastic bags are just the tip of the plastic pollution iceberg, but it's an easy solution so it's great to see ...

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:17:46 -0800 Plastic packaging industry is moving towards completely bio-based products http://plasticstories.posterous.com/plastic-packaging-industry-is-moving-towards http://plasticstories.posterous.com/plastic-packaging-industry-is-moving-towards

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/CkFnI1cjfwY/121204081138.htm

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a technique to significantly improve the quality of bio-based plastic packaging. The new generation of bio-based plastic packaging is not only eco-friendly but also has several superior qualities compared to traditional plastic packaging. The plastic packaging industry is moving towards completely bio-based products. The volume of oil used every year in the production of plastics equates to approximately five per cent of the world's total oil consumption. Approximately 40 per cent of all plastics are used in packaging, which puts special pressure on the packaging industry to reduce dependence on oil.

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Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:44:09 -0800 New Study Links Plastics Exposure to Breast Cancer http://plasticstories.posterous.com/new-study-links-plastics-exposure-to-breast-c http://plasticstories.posterous.com/new-study-links-plastics-exposure-to-breast-c

New Study Links Plastics Exposure to Breast Cancer http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/11/report-plastics-breast-cancer-link

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Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:05:09 -0700 Plastic Pollution in Great Lakes Most Concentrated in the World http://plasticstories.posterous.com/plastic-pollution-in-great-lakes-most-concent http://plasticstories.posterous.com/plastic-pollution-in-great-lakes-most-concent

Plastic Pollution in Great Lakes Most Concentrated in the World http://ecowatch.org/2012/plastic-pollution-great-lakes/

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Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:49:16 -0700 Plastic Waste Increasing on Remote Arctic Seabed, Cameras Reveal http://plasticstories.posterous.com/plastic-waste-increasing-on-remote-arctic-sea http://plasticstories.posterous.com/plastic-waste-increasing-on-remote-arctic-sea

Plastic Waste Increasing on Remote Arctic Seabed, Cameras Reveal http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/YaleEnvironment360/~3/Xy2-3OtNmlk/

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Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:45:29 -0700 Eugene Becomes Third City in Oregon to Ban Plastic Bags http://plasticstories.posterous.com/eugene-becomes-third-city-in-oregon-to-ban-pl http://plasticstories.posterous.com/eugene-becomes-third-city-in-oregon-to-ban-pl

Eugene Becomes Third City in Oregon to Ban Plastic Bags http://ecowatch.org/2012/eugene-bans-plastic-bags/

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Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:55:34 -0700 NYT: Recycling Helps, but It’s Not All You Can Do for the Environment http://plasticstories.posterous.com/nyt-recycling-helps-but-its-not-all-you-can-d http://plasticstories.posterous.com/nyt-recycling-helps-but-its-not-all-you-can-d


Recycling paper and glass does indeed help the environment, though experts say all of us ought to do more.
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Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:35:21 -0700 BPA's real threat may be after it has metabolized: Chemical found in many plastics linked to multiple health threats http://plasticstories.posterous.com/bpas-real-threat-may-be-after-it-has-metaboli http://plasticstories.posterous.com/bpas-real-threat-may-be-after-it-has-metaboli

BPA's real threat may be after it has metabolized: Chemical found in many plastics linked to multiple health threats http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/reaJxWfahUM/121004200905.htm

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Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:59:42 -0700 Bike Tour Exposes How Plastic Pollution is Destroying our Planet http://plasticstories.posterous.com/bike-tour-exposes-how-plastic-pollution-is-de http://plasticstories.posterous.com/bike-tour-exposes-how-plastic-pollution-is-de

Bike Tour Exposes How Plastic Pollution is Destroying our Planet http://ecowatch.org/2012/plastic-pollution-destroying-planet/

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