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#PlasticWaste

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@MisuseCase Yes, it's too much but the problem is bigger. Mostly, the waste comes from the land (entering in rivers/no waste management etc.). *Every* plastic waste becomes microplastics, because plastic decomposes in nature, especially in the ocean.

In the link I gave in my comment, you can learn quite well about the origins of the problem and what we can do: oceanliteracy.unesco.org/plast

@meercat0 @ExtinctionR

oceanliteracy.unesco.orgOcean plastic pollution an overview: data and statisticsPlastic is one of the most enduring materials man has created. It can take hundreds of years for it to degrade. What are the consequences?

#Fotovorschlag @FotoVorschlag
Dinge die mit "I" beginnen ....' / Things starting with the letter I

Idiotenmahnmal / Memorial For An Idiot

I usually collect #waste on my hikes. We had a repeat offender, a farmer even littering the stream. I improvised a small #voodoo #sculpture at the stream crossing with his #rubbish. As if by magic (middlefinger), he stopped from then on. The whole village had giggled, everybody understood the sign.😈

Replied to Richard Ashwell

Flies, rats and offers of hush money - the price of living next to a ‘monster’ incinerator

“We have been inundated with flies, rats, smell, noise. It's just been horrendous,” says Mandy Royle, who lives in the closest home to the UK’s biggest #waste incinerator at Runcorn in Cheshire.

The facility generates electricity from burning nearly a million tonnes of household #rubbish every year - but much of that waste doesn't come from Ms Royle's local area. Like many #incinerators, deliveries come from hundreds of miles away.

BBC analysis suggests the burden of the UK's waste is disproportionately falling on deprived areas such as Runcorn, which are 10 times more likely to have an #EnergyFromWaste incinerator in their midst than in the wealthiest areas.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwylep

BBC NewsFlies, rats and hush money - living next to a ‘monster’ incineratorThe UK's burden of waste is disproportionately falling on deprived areas, where residents have spoken to the BBC.

Burning household #waste in giant incinerators to make electricity is now the dirtiest way the UK generates power, BBC analysis has found.

Nearly half of the rubbish produced in UK homes, including increasing amounts of #plastic, is now being incinerated. Scientists warn it is a “disaster for the #climate” - and some are calling for a ban on new #incinerators.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3wxg

BBC NewsBurning household rubbish now UK’s dirtiest form of power, BBC findsNearly half of waste is now burned for energy, but BBC analysis finds it is as dirty as coal.

🧵 1/4 How to change people who already seem ideologically entrenched?
In our village super market I just met one of our worst climate deniers and far-right hardliners ... shopping with jute bags. I had problems not to giggle loudly. What had happended that he had such an ecological behaviour?
✅ First happened the French anti-plastic laws: ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/c
Years before, disposable #bags were prohibited at the checkout, this man was one of the

Last summer, Everyday Plastic volunteers placed tracking devices into 40 bundles of soft plastic packaging and dropped them at front-of-store collection points at Sainsbury's and Tesco supermarkets across England.

In our new investigation, we've been working with the Environmental Investigation Agency UK to reveal the hard truth about soft #plastic recycling points at supermarkets…

🔥 Of the tracked #SoftPlastic #packaging #waste collected for #recycling, 70% of the soft plastic that reached a final destination was burnt, not recycled

The rest ended up at recycling facilities that downcycle soft #PlasticWaste into lower value products – the majority of which were in Türkiye.

Environmental law charity ClientEarth warns that the results of the investigation show that supermarket soft plastic take-back schemes are misleading customers.

youtube.com/watch?v=P-i0C_osbZ