Comments on: Concerned Ohio River Residents Oppose Plastic Pollution Worldwide NOW https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2020/12/26/concerned-ohio-river-residents-oppose-plastic-pollution-worldwide-now/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bobby Bascomb https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2020/12/26/concerned-ohio-river-residents-oppose-plastic-pollution-worldwide-now/#comment-350658 Bobby Bascomb Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:27:14 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=35646#comment-350658 <strong>Living on Earth: Activism Cuts Plastic Waste in the Bahamas</strong> From Bobby Bascomb, Living on Earth, January 8, 2021 § Plastic waste is an overwhelming problem in the Bahamas. Ocean currents routinely wash tons of foreign plastic on to the beaches of the island nation. Add in waste from the tourism industry and domestic use and the Bahamas finds itself drowning in plastic. Without enough space and resources to recycle the plastic, the Bahamas has been forced to burn or bury much of it in landfills. Environmental activist Kristal Ambrose was struck by the profound harm to wildlife caused by plastic waste. So, she started a non-profit to fight it and successfully lobbied her government to ban all single-use plastics in the Bahamas. For her work, Kristal is the 2020 Goldman Environmental prize winner for Island Nations. She joins me now. Kristal, welcome to Living on Earth. https://loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=21-P13-00002&segmentID=4 Living on Earth: Activism Cuts Plastic Waste in the Bahamas

From Bobby Bascomb, Living on Earth, January 8, 2021

§ Plastic waste is an overwhelming problem in the Bahamas. Ocean currents routinely wash tons of foreign plastic on to the beaches of the island nation. Add in waste from the tourism industry and domestic use and the Bahamas finds itself drowning in plastic.

Without enough space and resources to recycle the plastic, the Bahamas has been forced to burn or bury much of it in landfills.

Environmental activist Kristal Ambrose was struck by the profound harm to wildlife caused by plastic waste. So, she started a non-profit to fight it and successfully lobbied her government to ban all single-use plastics in the Bahamas.

For her work, Kristal is the 2020 Goldman Environmental prize winner for Island Nations. She joins me now. Kristal, welcome to Living on Earth.

https://loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=21-P13-00002&segmentID=4

]]> By: Bill Adams https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2020/12/26/concerned-ohio-river-residents-oppose-plastic-pollution-worldwide-now/#comment-346586 Bill Adams Mon, 28 Dec 2020 01:34:59 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=35646#comment-346586 <strong>Environment: Let’s wean ourselves off plastics</strong> By Bill Adams, Tacoma News Tribune, December 15, 2020 Re: “Union coalition urges state to approve methanol plant,” (TNT, 12/3). A coalition of about 25 national and international unions claims that in addition to creating family-wage jobs, the proposed methanol plant in Kalama, Washington, would also help fight climate change. While it would provide about 200 permanent jobs, its 4.6 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution annually would only surrender to climate change, not fight it. The proponents’ prevailing attitude seems similar to what they once tried selling in Tacoma: that if it’s not built here, it will be built elsewhere, so why help the local economy? But no matter where it’s built, it will pollute big-time, doing nothing to combat climate change as carbon pollution does not respect geographic boundaries. Perhaps it’s time for the world to think seriously about weaning itself from plastics dependency (methanol is the feed stock for making plastics) to more reusable, renewable and biodegradable materials. Incentives to do this would surely engage the entrepreneurial spirit of our country and lead to better jobs and a healthier environment. Bill Adams, Des Moines https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article247863840.html Environment: Let’s wean ourselves off plastics

By Bill Adams, Tacoma News Tribune, December 15, 2020

Re: “Union coalition urges state to approve methanol plant,” (TNT, 12/3).

A coalition of about 25 national and international unions claims that in addition to creating family-wage jobs, the proposed methanol plant in Kalama, Washington, would also help fight climate change.

While it would provide about 200 permanent jobs, its 4.6 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution annually would only surrender to climate change, not fight it.

The proponents’ prevailing attitude seems similar to what they once tried selling in Tacoma: that if it’s not built here, it will be built elsewhere, so why help the local economy?

But no matter where it’s built, it will pollute big-time, doing nothing to combat climate change as carbon pollution does not respect geographic boundaries.

Perhaps it’s time for the world to think seriously about weaning itself from plastics dependency (methanol is the feed stock for making plastics) to more reusable, renewable and biodegradable materials.

Incentives to do this would surely engage the entrepreneurial spirit of our country and lead to better jobs and a healthier environment.

Bill Adams, Des Moines

https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article247863840.html

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