Plastic waste, the problem many countries export so they don't have to deal with it domestically, is getting more difficult to find a foreign home for. 

Malaysia is the latest country to stop accepting it because the sheer volume taken in means much of it is dumped, burned or ends up in the environment. 

So more emphasis is needed to

1) reduce the amount of plastic produced 
and 
2) find local means to re-use or recycle it 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/malaysia-stops-accepting-plastic-waste-from-the-u-s-and-other-rich-nations

#PlasticWaste #OceanPlastics #Recycling

The market for global recycled #oceanplastics is expected to be worth around $1.93 billion this year, and could be worth as much as $3.5 billion by 2034, a new report by Custom Market Insights has found. 🌊

https://sustainabilityonline.net/?p=13175

this story of birds ingesting #OceanPlastics does not sit well with my morning’s oatmeal

All we need is for one western government to implement an #EndOfPlasticBottlesDeadline #December2027 #Auspol

no, we can’t ban all plastics completely. there is a whole hip-bone-connected-to-the-kneebone tangle of economic relationships at play — for example plastics are used to store silage effectively and without them we would be losing disproportionate quantities of stock-feed and in turn agri output would be affected carbon footprint blah blah blah… and there is a whole baby industry thing about recycling these we should be supporting, and so on and so on and scooby dooby dooby…

but for the love of all that lives and breathes on this planet we do not need to transport food and drinks in plastic bottles. Coca Cola revealed in 2019 it was making 200,000 bottles a minute. That’s three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or more than — or only —one fifth of the world’s plastic bottle output.
who does this benefit? It makes transport cheaper and handling easier (now increasingly automated) — benefitting billion dollar conglomerates. coke could successfully make the change to glass because the demand for their drink is inelastic.

companies are mostly obliged to do two things: make a profit and observe the laws of countries where they operate. one good stiff law in australia demanding change would eventually affect the mindset of the general public…. etc

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/birds-crunch-full-plastic-losing-war-waste/105221266

Dear Friends,
ICYMI, Clorox Australia is sanctioned (April 14) for falsely claiming its Glad plastic products were made from 50% recycled "ocean plastic."
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/clorox-ordered-to-pay-825m-in-penalties-for-misleading-ocean-plastic-claims-about-certain-glad-products

ESM

#GreenWashing #trust
#OceanPlastics #Microplastics
#environment #anthropocene

Rereading the Pew Charitable Trust’s “Breaking The Plastic Wave” report to prep for tomorrow’s visit to Kenyon by one of the project’s leaders, Dr. Palardy. It’s equal parts sobering & inspiring. A tour-de-force of deeply informed, open-source analysis & system-level thinking. In short, no single solution (collect & dispose, #recycle, reduce & substitute) can do it - system change is needed. #plastic #OceanConservation #oceanplastics #reuse #chemicalrecycling

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2020/07/23/breaking-the-plastic-wave-top-findings

What a cool idea:

They let you borrow a kayak for free and you have fun collecting floating waste from the water. 🚣🗑🚣‍♀️🪣🚣‍♂️🚮

Currently in various cities across Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Japan.

Conditions:
- Spend your time on the water collecting waste.
- Share this experience on your social media using #GreenKayak (yes, still mostly the Meta platforms)

https://youtu.be/ZeSEtGzOIfo

https://www.greenkayak.org/

#GreenKayak #Kayak #Rivers #WaterSports #OceanPlastics #WasteCollection #Garbage #EnvironmentalEducation #Copenhagen #Berlin #Tokyo #Oslo #Bergen #Aarhus #Hamburg #Helsinki

Here's my vote for the most disheartening Anthropocene quote of the week: "A new disease caused solely by plastics has been discovered in seabirds." Named plasticosis, the illness is caused by the constant irritation of a bird's digestive tract. #oceanplastics #plastics #birds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/03/plasticosis-new-disease-caused-by-plastics-discovered-in-seabirds

Big job for small robot

#plasticpollution #plastics #pollution #environmental #Robot #Robotech #Robotic #solarenergy #solarpower #solarpanels #renewableenergy #decarbonization #Argentinas #research #Science #Engineering #Researcher #energy #solar #oceanpollution #oceanplastic #oceanplastics

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/12/21/solar-power-to-propel-small-but-mighty-water-cleaning-robot/

Big job for small robot

#plasticpollution #plastics #pollution #environmental #Robot #Robotech #Robotic #solarenergy #solarpower #solarpanels #renewableenergy #decarbonization #Argentinas #research #Science #Engineering #Researcher #energy #solar #oceanpollution #oceanplastic #oceanplastics

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/12/21/solar-power-to-propel-small-but-mighty-water-cleaning-robot/