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.
Other retailers are available, e.g. Ethical Superstore
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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.
Around £300 billion of public money is spent annually with external suppliers by the government, UK local authorities and other public bodies like the NHS. Research shows that nearly 20% of this spend goes to companies with obvious links to tax havens.
In 2023 we learned that, ironically, it was the UK’s tax authority (HMRC) which spent the most with Amazon over the last five years (£228 million).
https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-campaigns-boycotts/public-spending-tax-avoiding-companies
In 2024, HMRC plans to plug this hole in its circular underfunding by offering Amazon a tax rebate.
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.
Night vision footage showed the seemingly conscientious rodent gathering clothes pegs, corks, nuts and bolts, and placing them in a tray
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/07/mouse-secretly-filmed-tidying-mans-shed-every-night
Not ‘nesting’ or ‘way-marking’ behaviour… Could it be a Welsh Womble? Or a graduate of NIMH?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wombles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NIMH
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?
A few inappropriate examples I have noticed this year:
Chris Pincher, the former Tory deputy chief whip, should be suspended from the Commons for eight weeks over “grave” sexual misconduct.
Harm van Marwijk qualified as a GP in 1988.
Harm van Marwijk – The Conversation
Peter Bone has been stripped of the Conservative party whip after the MP was found to have bullied and harassed a member of staff and exposed his genitals near their face.
Colombia has joined an alliance of countries calling for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. As a country with coal, oil and gas industries, this is a significant move.
The country’s president, Gustavo Petro, said “there is no other path”.
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.
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