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08 September

Let’s Talk ‘GREEN’- Bioplastics?

Bioplastics…Will They Solve the World’s Litter Problem? Hello fellow environmentalist, Unfortunately we only recycle 9% of the plastic we consume.For all the effort and fanfare, that’s the sad truth. Less than 1/10 of the plastic we use winds up not buried in the ground, not dumped in the ocean, and not burned up in giant […]

07 September

Let’s Talk ‘GREEN’- The Recycling Smokescreen

The ‘Recycling Smokescreen’… Hello fellow environmentalist, Let’s talk about Oil Companies & Plastic… The BIG and powerful oil companies (Shell etc) are now putting there vast financial resources into building new PLASTIC manufacturing plants (especially in the USA). They are intent on making money (profits) from the billions of gallons of oil they extract from mother earth any […]

07 September

Let’s Talk ‘GREEN’- Covid19 – Old Masks?

25,000 Tons of Trash: COVID’s Environmental legacy…Where have all the old face masks ended up? Hello fellow environmentalist, Last year, a study commissioned by OceansAsia determined that more than 1.5 million face masks entered the world’s oceans in 2020 — a single but substantial prong of the total mass of plastic waste generated by the […]