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Bad News about Plastic: Degrading Poisons into Ocean Water by Jan Lundberg / Steve Connor    21 August 2009 Today's world requires as never before that we all accept change and be part of it proactively. Mounting evidence shows there is no time to wait for people to decide to catch on in their own time. No better example of this exists than the plastic plague. Until we stop participating in trashing the planet and ourselves we are slashing away at our planetary wrists in ecocide. Read more...   Fewer Toxins in Toyland by Sarah (Steve) Mosko, Ph.D.    15 August 2009 [With commentary by Jan Lundberg] This coming holiday season, parents shopping for children can rest a bit easier because of a recent California law restricting the use of toxic phthalate plasticizers in toys and childcare products made of plastic. Two additional classes of chemicals suspected of posing health risks to children, bisphenol A and Read more...   Voyage to the Plastic Frontier: the Alguita sails the Pacific by Jan Lundberg    19 July 2009 Captain Charles Moore is today one of several men of the hour. But if there are people on this planet hundreds of years from now, surrounded by all the non-biodegradable, toxic petrochemical plastic saturating the oceans, Read more...   Agroplastics or Bioplastics: Coming On by Jan Lundberg    23 March 2009 Petroleum-based plastics have only in the last several years been discovered to be an unmitigated disaster. Oceans are being filled with this mess of nonbiodegradable poison that cannot be cleaned up. Plastics, their additives and toxins attached to them in the oceans enter our bodies and damage our hormones and genes. So, is it agroplastics to the rescue? Read more...   Downplaying Plastic Trash in the Ocean (Conservancy) by Jan Lundberg    12 March 2009 Culture Change Letter #241 - A widely reported story on ocean trash cites the huge Ocean Conservancy group. The group's new report misleads, in that it avoids concluding that the trash problem facing the ocean is overwhelmingly one of plastic. Read more...   6 firms stop sales of hard-plastic baby bottles by Jane Kay    11 March 2009 Bending to growing public and legal pressure that began in San Francisco, California, six major companies have agreed to stop selling hard-plastic baby bottles containing bisphenol A, an industrial chemical suspected of harming human development. Read more...   Carrying your own reusable water bottle: still plastic? by Jan Lundberg    23 December 2008 Culture Change Letter #222 - There are two healthy trends going together: rejecting plastic water bottles, and appreciating good ol' tap water. Reasons include the need to cut waste: at best, 17% of plastic water bottles are recycled. Only about one percent of plastic bags are recycled. Of these and other plastics, over 99.9% of it is petroleum. Landfills and incinerators handle the great bulk of this non-biodegradable toxic trash, and a huge amount resides in the oceans. Regarding the major issue of appreciating water as a right or public utility, paying for water to enrich corporations is anathema to more and more of us. Read more...   Plastics: Your Formidable Enemy - Questioning exposure, recycling, biodegradability, alternatives by Jan Lundberg    04 November 2008 Imagine the near future without petroleum, as we try to sustain ourselves and do things in a more natural or austere way. Such as, no plastic hoses replaceable for watering gardens just when we'll have to do more local gardening for a post-petroleum food supply. Read more...

More... Don't Drink the (Plastic Bottled) Water Encountering plastics in the Caribbean Plastic disaster breaks through to mainstream: scandal over bisphenol-A The teeming plasticized masses' awakening Plastics are on the run in San Francisco, the nation’s anti-petroleum capital Plastic Bag Reduction Ordinance, San Francisco plastics in cars / powerful haikus / announcements The Plastic Generation's transformation and the demise of the religion of techno-worship