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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 17:45:46 GMT 7
Use of plastic has increased 20-fold in the past half-century; production of the ubiquitous material is expected to double again in the next 20 years (and nearly quadruple over the next 50). And, CNN Money reports, nearly a third of all plastic packaging "escapes collection systems." As for where the rest goes, more than 8 million tons of plastics end up entering our oceans each year, where the pieces can survive for hundreds of years. There are believed to be 165 million tons of it in the ocean right now. We're dumping the equivalent of one garbage truck's worth into the ocean per minute; that's projected to jump to four per minute by 2050, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation. And that report has an ominous warning: We're on track to have more plastic than fish, by weight, in the world's oceans by 2050. (Right now, the ratio is about 1:5, plastics to fish.) Continues - www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/01/24/oceans-more-plastic-than-fish/79267192/
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 17:56:53 GMT 7
I blame 7/eleven -
Years ago people agreed that pollution was bad. No one ever said "hey, I quite like pollution." The world was unanimous in not liking pollution.
Then came along the Global Warmists, and they caused a fight. Now - if we just went back to fighting polltion the world would pull together - but no.
Conspiracies abound, corporations get rich, scientists get funding - and our fish choke to death on plastic.
Mai dee.
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