White stripes of decomposed styrofoam on the beach.
Captions and Photo: © SAF — Coastal Care
Excerpts;
Researchers have developed a new catalyst that can cleave plastic’s strong carbon-carbon, converting it into higher value products.
The catalytic method serves a one-two punch by removing plastic pollution from the environment and contributing to a circular economy…
Read Full Article; Science Daily (10-23-2019)
Plastic pollution: When The Mermaids Cry: The Great Plastic Tide, Coastal Care – ©2009
” Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. However, durable and very slow to degrade, plastic materials that are used in the production of so many products all, ultimately, become waste with staying power. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioral propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature…
The unprecedented plastic waste tide plaguing our oceans and shores, can become as limited as our chosen relationship with plastics, which involves a dramatic behavioral change on our part…”
