SchwartzReport: Micro-Plastics Invade Water and Food — Major Emergent Threat to Human Health & All Systems Dependent on Water Flow

Once again we see in this report, the latest on the Plastic Waste Trend SR has been following for some years, what wretched excess uncontrolled by any shred of common sense is doing to the Earth. What is becoming clearer year by year is that the micro-particles of plastic produced by the world ocean’s constant …

Open Mind: Teen Invention to Skim Plastic Only From Oceans — Are We Ready to Harvest Profit from Second Generation of Fossil Fuel Garbage? + Plastic Trash RECAP

Teen Says His Invention Will Save the World’s Oceans Nineteen-year-old Boyan Slat wants to change the world by making the oceans a lot less trashy. The Dutch teenager says he has invented a device that can remove 20 billion tons of plastic trash from the world’s oceans, according to a Daily Mail report. The story …

Chuck Spinney: Boeing Implosion a Case Study in Integrity Lost — Specific Decisions Leading to Plastic Flammable Planes with Explosive Batteries

Two and one-half years ago, on 11 February 2011, Pierre Sprey and I posted a blog entry on the Blaster, Why is Boing Imploding?.  This post is still the fourth most popular since I began the website in 2008.  It describes how the corrosive practices of the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) spill …

Koko: Mushroom-Based Packaging Replacing Plastics or Styrofoam

Ecovative Web Site Ecovative’s environmentally responsible products can replace materials ranging from petroleum based expanded plastics (like Styrofoam™) to particle board made using carcinogenic formaldehyde. Our materials are 100% renewable, and primarily made from agricultural byproducts. These low-embodied energy materials can be home composted when they’re no longer needed. Many of the materials and chemicals …