Big Oil and the plastics industry have deceptively promoted recycling as a solution to plastic waste management for more than 50 years, despite their long-standing knowledge that plastic recycling is not technically or economically viable at scale.
The Fraud of Plastic Recycling
Hang on till I have a cig and a spin around the block in my SUV to think on this.
Amazon was discarding vast quantities of perfectly usable goods. The report identified items such as laptops, shavers, headphones, smart TVs, as well as brand new books, jewellery and hygiene products. Almost all of these items, either returned or unsold, were thrown away in perfectly good condition by the company. …
The retail giant charges vendors that sell through its platform for shelf space in its warehouses. If the products are not sold within a short period of time, Amazon increases the storage costs, but also offers disposal as a fee-based service.
Amazon’s burning approach to unsold and returned products | Ethical Consumer
Economic success: pay to destroy your stock rather than pay more to store it before selling it.
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the marine life just beneath our feet, we’re actually finding they’re full of drugs. They’re full of the contraceptive pills, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medication. Every single marine species that we’ve looked at so far is full of cocaine.
Britain’s Raw Sewage Dumping Scandal Leaves Fish ‘Full Of Cocaine’ | HuffPost UK Politics
Singing ‘cockles and mussels are high, are high-o’.
baleen whale song is restricted to a narrow frequency which overlaps with noise produced by shipping vessels.
Whale song mystery solved by scientists – BBC News
Ships which dismiss calls to change their noise behaviour should face the prospect of receiving horny humpbacks.
Seventeen landfills across England are known to be producing a highly toxic liquid substance containing some banned and potentially carcinogenic “forever chemicals”, in some cases at levels 260 times higher than that deemed safe for drinking water, it can be revealed. However the government says it does not know where these landfills are.
Nevertheless, questions are being asked around the water cooler.
In the circular flow diagram of standard economics, nothing enters from the outside to keep it flowing, and nothing exits as a result of the flow. There are no resource inputs from the environment: no oil, coal, or natural gas, no minerals and metals, no water, soil, or food. There are no outputs into the ecosphere: no garbage, no pollution, no greenhouse gasses. That’s because in the circular flow diagram, there is no ecosphere, no environment. The economy is seen as a self-renewing, perpetual-motion merry-go-round set in a vacuum. …
agriculture is “the part of the economy that is sensitive to climate change,” but because it accounts for just 3 percent of national output, climate disruption of food production cannot produce a “very large effect on the U.S. economy.” …
“If the [Atlantic meridional overturning circulation] slows down a little, the global impact is a positive 0.2-0.3 percent of income,” they concluded. “This goes up to 1.3 percent for a more pronounced slowdown.” They argued that while climate heating cooks the rest of the world, European countries will benefit from a cooling effect of the current’s collapse. …
the last time Earth experienced those kinds of temperature differentials, during the interglacial Eemian era roughly 120,000 years ago, raging tempests deposited house-sized boulders on coastlines in Europe and the Caribbean. …
Following the advice of investment consultants, pension funds have informed their members that global warming of 2-4.3 C will have only a minimal impact upon their portfolios
When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics
So, I should put all my subsistence into climate gamble bonds?
Such is the concern about its safety standards that US officials have warned of its creaking infrastructure in diplomatic cables
If cracks in the edifice continue to grow, officials will be forced to seal it up entirely in red tape.
• Temperatures in the Arctic are rising four times as fast as those in the rest of the world.
• Gas prices in the U.S. are falling quickly, helping to tame inflation.
Wednesday Briefing: A warning from President Biden
Any similarity to a causal link is coincidence.
Two airports were permitted to kill as many brent geese as required to secure air safety, although none were reportedly killed.
Nearly 50,000 animals licensed to be killed by NatureScot
No brent geese were licensed to attack airports, although several shat on the terminal building.
A pair of the Small Blue butterflies were identified on the military training area … we are equally committed to supporting nature recovery and balancing the conservation of vital species and habitats with military training requirements.
Rare Butterfly Makes Scottish Military Base Home | Mirage News
Military analysts are excited to observe whether a butterfly flapping its wings causes a mine to explode in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Ecomical 