jbirmingham1Nov 15, 20201 min readPlastic in Indonesia“Indonesia’s Plastic Waste Problem” Source: https://theaseanpost.com/article/indonesias-plastic-waste-problem Based on a study done by...
jbirmingham1Oct 26, 20202 min readWhat happens when you recycle?“What Happens to All That Plastic?” Source: https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/31/what-happens-to-all-that-plastic/ Only plastics...
jbirmingham1Oct 21, 20201 min readGermany (and possible solutions...)Source: https://www.dw.com/en/plastic-waste-and-the-recycling-myth/a-45746469 Germans return deposit bottles to grocery stores and gather...
jbirmingham1Oct 21, 20201 min readPlastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (2014)What is plastic made of? Where does plastic go? Almost every molecule of plastic ever created is still on the Earth The Great Pacific...
jbirmingham1Oct 15, 20201 min readGeneral Recycling Information Source: Catlin, Jesse R., and Yitong Wang. “Recycling Gone Bad: When the Option to Recycle Increases Resource Consumption.” Journal of...
jbirmingham1Oct 4, 20202 min readPlastic Wars Plastic Wars (2020) Sea turtle with plastic straw up its nose By 2050, it is estimated that global plastic production will triple...
jbirmingham1Oct 4, 20202 min readThe Plastic Problem The Plastic Problem (2019) 120 million plastic bottles used everyday Easter Island Microplastic problem coming from the South Pacific...
jbirmingham1Oct 4, 20201 min readGlobal Statistics https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution Statistics From 2010: Global primary production of plastic was 270 million tons Global...
jbirmingham1Sep 29, 20203 min readTappedBy 2030, ⅔ of the world will not have proper access to drinking water Water is treated like a commodity, so there is corporate control...
jbirmingham1Sep 29, 20204 min readA Plastic OceanIn the last 10 years, we have made more plastic than the century before that Plastic can get in animal’s digestive system, causing them...