From seabirds to sea turtles: the fatal toll of #plastic revealed

Scientists have analysed 10,000 marine animal autopsies to understand how plastic ingestion leads to death.

The study found seabirds face extreme risk after swallowing just 23 pieces of plastic, giving them a 90% chance of dying. Marine mammals reach similar danger at 29 pieces, while sea turtles need to ingest around 405 pieces to hit the same threshold.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5eyjd2zz7o #PlasticPollution #Ocean's #environment #nature

From seabirds to sea turtles: the fatal toll of #plastic revealed

Scientists have analysed 10,000 marine animal autopsies to understand how plastic ingestion leads to death.

The study found seabirds face extreme risk after swallowing just 23 pieces of plastic, giving them a 90% chance of dying. Marine mammals reach similar danger at 29 pieces, while sea turtles need to ingest around 405 pieces to hit the same threshold.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5eyjd2zz7o #PlasticPollution #Ocean's #environment #nature

There's something so very wrong with society when my offer to bring in reusable plates/cutlery to my kids' school for a teacher organized pot luck got met with "thanks but we have to adhere to safety concerns."

#PlasticPollution

There's something so very wrong with society when my offer to bring in reusable plates/cutlery to my kids' school for a teacher organized pot luck got met with "thanks but we have to adhere to safety concerns."

#PlasticPollution

I'm bleeding right now because of capitalism.

Let me explain one by one:
* capitalism produces shitty products that have to be replaced regularly
* they send them in oversized cardboard boxes to be able to add more plastic around the product
* the cardboard box is more durable than the product
* i have more than once been yelled at by neighbors for putting boxes in the wastepaper bin without making them smaller first (usually they were filled with wastepaper, but the neighbors didn't see that)
* if capitalism didn't produce so much garbage, or there was enough money for a more frequent garbage collection, the neighbors wouldn't be stingy about space in the bin
* but capitalism wants us to be angry and miserable
* to avoid getting yelled at again I just tried to crunch a very big, very sturdy box
* I stepped on it
* the box didn't give in
* i slipped
* fell
* and hit my head
* hard

Die capitalism, die!

#capitalism #consumption #PlannedObsolescence #PlasticPollution #PlasticIndustry #EWaste #hate #consumerism #AddingInsultToInjury #CompostTheRich #EndCapitalism

I'm bleeding right now because of capitalism.

Let me explain one by one:
* capitalism produces shitty products that have to be replaced regularly
* they send them in oversized cardboard boxes to be able to add more plastic around the product
* the cardboard box is more durable than the product
* i have more than once been yelled at by neighbors for putting boxes in the wastepaper bin without making them smaller first (usually they were filled with wastepaper, but the neighbors didn't see that)
* if capitalism didn't produce so much garbage, or there was enough money for a more frequent garbage collection, the neighbors wouldn't be stingy about space in the bin
* but capitalism wants us to be angry and miserable
* to avoid getting yelled at again I just tried to crunch a very big, very sturdy box
* I stepped on it
* the box didn't give in
* i slipped
* fell
* and hit my head
* hard

Die capitalism, die!

#capitalism #consumption #PlannedObsolescence #PlasticPollution #PlasticIndustry #EWaste #hate #consumerism #AddingInsultToInjury #CompostTheRich #EndCapitalism

We're in the final hours of the #plasticstreaty negotiations, and it's not looking good. But Neil Tangri says: Even without the big plastic producing countries, there remain ways ambitious countries can tackle #plasticpollution. Listen to our short update:

https://m.soundcloud.com/plastisphere-podcast/inc52-update-tangri

We're in the final hours of the #plasticstreaty negotiations, and it's not looking good. But Neil Tangri says: Even without the big plastic producing countries, there remain ways ambitious countries can tackle #plasticpollution. Listen to our short update:

https://m.soundcloud.com/plastisphere-podcast/inc52-update-tangri

Just a reminder #plasticpollution is not a new issue. Scientists found it in birds in the 1960s and described ocean plastics in the early 1970s, with reports in media like the NYTimes and Washington Post. The #plastics industry knew.

Listen to my deep-dive on Plastisphere Podcast: https://on.soundcloud.com/cjiLyn5fxSlUEKhBPh

German radio version (shorter): https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/plastikmuell-im-meer-schon-1972-schlugen-forscher-alarm-100.html

#inc52 #plasticstreaty

Just a reminder #plasticpollution is not a new issue. Scientists found it in birds in the 1960s and described ocean plastics in the early 1970s, with reports in media like the NYTimes and Washington Post. The #plastics industry knew.

Listen to my deep-dive on Plastisphere Podcast: https://on.soundcloud.com/cjiLyn5fxSlUEKhBPh

German radio version (shorter): https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/plastikmuell-im-meer-schon-1972-schlugen-forscher-alarm-100.html

#inc52 #plasticstreaty

"At the conference ministers from 97 countries, including the UK, signed a joint political statement saying they wanted an ambitious treaty to be signed on [plastic production].

But this only included one of the top ten oil-producing nations - Canada. Plastic is made from oil, so any commitment to reduce production could harm their income, the countries claim."

#EsmeStallard, 2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq69e4j6jz8o

All the more reason to end fossil fuel industries ASAP.

#Oil #plastic#PlasticPollution