#plasticwaste — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plasticwaste, aggregated by home.social.
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How long has the problem of #PlasticWaste been recognized? How long ago did the #BigPlastic (everyone from chemical companies to users like#CocaCola, #Pepsi & #Nestlé ) talked about #recycling? When will we acknowledge that industry's "voluntary" controls are a smokescreen to cover their continued bad acts? That only a small percentage of plastic is responsibly recycled?
UK plastic ‘waste colonialism’ found to be polluting Turkey’s farming heartland
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/04/uk-plastic-waste-colonialism-recycling-exports-contaminating-water-crops-turkey?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other -
Polymer Editing Can Upcycle Waste Into Higher Performance Plastics
Adam Malin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy By editing the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than those of the starting material. Upcycling may help remedy the roughly 450 million tons of plastic discarded worldwide annually, of which only 9% gets recycled; the rest is incinerated or winds up in landfills, oceans or elsewhere……Continue […] -
India is facing a growing plastic waste crisis. It’s time to reduce, reuse, and recycle to protect our environment for future generations. Let’s take responsibility today! ♻️🇮🇳
#plasticwaste #plasticfreeindia #environment #sustainability #recycle #cleanindia #zerowaste #stopplasticpollution #greenindia #savetheplanet
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"Since the 1980s, Brett Christophers wrote recently in the LRB, ‘firms have made vast amounts of money by sending the rich world’s #waste to the global South’ – #hazardousWaste at first, joined more recently by discarded electronics, clothes and #plastics. Literal mountains of our rubbish are accumulating on the peripheries of cities such as Accra and Delhi. Waste, like wealth, is unevenly distributed."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/where-does-our-waste-go
#plasticWaste #wasteExport #electronicWaste #environmentalRacism