Why Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than You Think
I’m going to continue with the last email’s format, but before I get to that, here is this week’s new video:
Three Quotes:
“As the impacts of climate change intensify, free-market ideology, big business and financial actors increasingly shape the strategies and priorities in addressing it.”
— Dorothy Grace Guerrero
“In 2015, emissions from extraction and transport for plastic production were 9.5-10.5 million metric tons of CO2 in the U.S. alone—the equivalent of the emissions of 2.1 million passenger cars driven for a year”
— Earth Institute at Columbia
“There was never an enthusiastic belief that recycling was ultimately going to work in a significant way.”
— Lewis Freeman (V.P. of the Society of the Plastics Industry)
Three Links:
Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic. (The New York Times)
Plastic Wars (PBS Frontline)
The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet (Center for International Environmental Law)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie