Anyone on sea life and plastic; recycling and so on?

India a few years ago I met a guy whose cow ingested plastic and an agonizing death. My point is it is possible that dolphins and other fishes may choose to beach themselves cause they may have ingested plastic!

Plastic carry bags of thinner gauge is banned in many states here. it's unsuitable for recycling, is burnt, releases toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. Or it goes into landfill.

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Malaysia: A month ago there was an article by Reuters saying Malaysia to send 3,000 tonnes of plastic waste back to countries of origin -





Philippine: returned / dumped plastic waste in Canadian waters (same report)




Basel Convention 180 countries agreed to make global trade in plastic waste more transparent and better regulated.



the last line is insane. Trump probably is not aware about this.

The idiot wouldnt care anyways ! He doesnt believe in our enviromental shortcomings .
Just look how the fool want to rejuvenate the coal industry and coal fired power plants .
Canada is banning 1 time use plastics

Blame idiot environmentalists. They wanted to save trees and started the whole plastic bag business. Now they want to knee jerk into something else. Later, whatever dumb idea they have will make things even worse...

Yes it affects life in the oceans tremendously and with that is a threat to us too.
There's all kinds of photos to be found on the effects of plastic on animals, on land as well.
Like these rings from drinking bottles that you got when you unscrew the plastic top. There's birds, incl ducks, who got a ring like that around their heads, in their beaks and they die as they cannot get rid of it and can't eat that way anymore. Happens more than you'd think.
Sea creatures eating it as floating stuff may resemble the fish they eat and then dying because of it.

We now have to dump plastic separately and it's collected. That's great, but now we pay more for the leftover waste as they're focused on reducing that, NOT on reducing plastic.
This policy makes it more tempting to buy things in plastic as at least you don't have to pay extra for having that collected.

At least the supermarket doesn't wrap cucumbers in plastic separately anymore and they now have paper bags for your fruits and veggies as well as plastic. I hope they get rid of the plastic ones altogether. Every bit helps.

The man is an idiot indeed. They should never have put a pensioner in power. Old people usually don't give a chit about our planet and nature and environmental issues.
They're like "Oh well, I've had my time. Nothing I do will change it anymore."
Ridiculous, and extremely selfish, only thinking about themselves and having lost perspective.

I was talking to an older guy a few days ago on getting rid of weeds. He uses RoundUp, glyfosates, one of the worst around. He knew that, but yeah, nothing he did would help anymore.
Maybe old people can't sort it out in their time left, but they sure as hell can make it a lot worse by that attitude!

Oh, you also don't get free plastic bags anymore in shops. This is forbidden by law. You have to pay for them and some shops don't even have them anymore. They have other bags as alternative, ones you can use more often, from recycled plastic or cotton/linen, that you of course have to pay for.
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Knowing Trump, if the impeachment threat was not hanging, he may consider bombarding Iran with plastic. Imagine that, tons & tons of thin plastic waste floating down from the sky, day after day. Sounds crazy, wars are crazy anyway!

Back to Management:



If the Dutch have banned plastic seems reasonable to assume rest of Europe is similarly aligned.

Not yet necessarily, but it is coming, fast.

Ireland for example introduced a charge for plastic bags, and within 5 months, their consumption was reduced by 91%.

I recently also heard of similar price tactics in Portugal that proved successful, and in parts of Spain, voluntary agreements are having good results. Several more positive examples do exist.

The one-use plastic bag issue has to be sorted by 2012 and member states will also have to achieve a 90% collection target for plastic bottles by 2029."

I burn them. No exceptions.

Yes in the U.K. a 5 pence charge was introduced on carrier bags. This helped their usage fall drastically.
On another note, there was a fungus found in China, that eats plastic
Also somebody recently invented a plastic that rots
On another note, is it so strange that Trump loves plastic?
It is after all, a by product of the oil industry, and instead of paying to get rid of this waste product, they turn it into plastic, and make money from it

Oh, also there are schemes in some countries, where you can use plastic, bottles, and so on, to pay for things like a subway ticket, a nice idea me thinks, it could stop some idiots, from burning them

Un-Recyclable plastics, nuclear waste, polluted air and water, unhealthy food; a thousand years from now, if humans are still around, people are going to look back at us and say, "what the ell were they thinking????".

People think its silly that I snip the rings on 6 packs.
They find it strange I take the time to cut them but I've seen animals dead from strangulation because they got their heads in them.
Not pretty.

7.7 billion humans produce a lot of waste.
Most people can't fathom just how much.
Its sad we are poisoning our planet like we do.

We do a lot of management ourselves. We use cardboard for trees, plus they are great for the bottom of planters. We use the old water containers, I grind a hole in the bottom, then fill the bottom full of cardboard before dumping tree limbs and branches, then cow/horse manure and finally special mix dirt. Onions, lettuce, asparagus love it.

As far as plastics go, definitely recycle. But we saw on Youtube, these specific worms used for compost and such. But these worms eat styrofoam. Yeah, I know, sounds insane. We ordered a couple hundred and plan on seeing just how well effective this works. Immediately, one would think the worms turn into plastic and what does that do in the long run. But evidently, this is legit. So we plan on giving it a try. To me, it's a better option than burying styrofoam in landfills!!

Not many of you ever visted a non-presented visit to a landfill.
As a truck mechanic I have laid in it, cut bed srings from a driveshaft, fixed air lines and a hundred other problems landfill truck encounter.I've seen animals stuck in 6 pack rings, animals dead from getting trapped in plastic bottles, animals dead from ingesting that lil morsel of food you left in that container.
I assure you - it's heart wrenching.
But wait, its just a rat, its just a bird its just a coon.
I've watched a racoon fight a six pack ring for air.
It is appalling.

We did that.
Those animals are merely looking for food.
We set traps we don't even realize we set.

That grungy, nasty rat, dead in a 6 pack ring deserved to die right?
You are helping rid the world of grungy, nasty rats.
You are a hero because you threw away a 6 pack ring the last tim,e you sucked down your beer.
You should be praised, right??
But...have you ever sat and watched it die?
Did you point and say "I Did That"?

Well, I saw what you did in crystal clarity.

an area where industrial automation should be applied.

any plastics that we cannot recycle should be repurposed rather than sent to landfills.

learning how to reclaim plastics from the ocean could help with reclamation in outer space.

You do know biodegradable plastic can be made from hemp right?
But f÷∆π it, let's have a war, and use fossil fuels and there waste instead

V. interesting.

Recently I've seen on TV that a couple of kids (I call 'em kids) started a company that reclaims plastic from the oceans IIRC they've been at it for 2/3 years. Their income is from wristbands they make from the plastic...

engineers have found a use for tires in roadway construction. repurposing to help lower costs instead of going to landfills.