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Daniel Hoffmann🌻Disturbing photos of <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/plasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plasticPollution</a> of <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/oceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oceans</a>. Although this gallery may not be wholly representative it's shocking nonetheless. In contrast to climate change we immediately see that something is wrong and who is responsible. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/06/world-oceans-day-plastic-pollution-photos/683056/?utm_source=feed" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/06/world-oceans-day-plastic-pollution-photos/683056/?utm_source=feed</a>

Ali Clarke :flag_tino:I always feel a mixture of sadness and anger when I see the debris that has washed up from the harbour after a storm. So much visible plastic, let alone the unseen microplastics 😭😡 <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/plastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plastics</a> <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a>

Mojo ♻️Seabirds are losing the war on plastic. New research shows birds are mistaking plastic for food at alarming rates, leading to starvation and population collapse. Australia’s waste crisis is hitting nature hard. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/plasticpollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plasticpollution</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/seabirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabirds</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environment</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#australia</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/wildlifecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlifecrisis</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/wastewar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wastewar</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/natureunderthreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#natureunderthreat</a> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/birds-crunch-full-plastic-losing-war-waste/105221266" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/birds-crunch-full-plastic-losing-war-waste/105221266</a>

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0It sort of bewilders me that companies are releasing products based on these materials without having asked and answered basic questions - certainly issues identified with conventional plastics offered at least a partial roadmap of specific things to consider (nano/microparticle, environmental fate in various environments, impact of metabolites, behavior in digestive systems, etc.) And I see too many products preying on consumers, capitalizing on confusion of "biodegradable" vs "compostable" - in fact, I fear many making the consumer products from these materials don't fully understand the issues.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/13/starch-based-bioplastic-petroleum-plastic-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/13/starch-based-bioplastic-petroleum-plastic-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/plasticpollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plasticpollution</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MisleadingClaims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MisleadingClaims</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RegulatoryFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RegulatoryFailure</a> - All courtesy of the lobbyists paid by <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BigPlastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigPlastic</a> - which includes consumer products companies like Pepsi and Coke and Nestle and Danone and all those other companies helping you ingest plastics.

DragofixPlastics industry pushed ‘advanced recycling’ despite knowing problems – report <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/06/plastic-advanced-recycling-report" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/06/plastic-advanced-recycling-report</a><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environment</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plastic</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a>

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Fascinating how the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ACC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ACC</a> (American Chemical Council) and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PlasticPolluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPolluters</a> continue their disingenuous messaging, carefully selecting the data they present. If you think "advanced recycling" is not polluting, ask yourself why most other petrochemical plants regularly violate emissions standards, why we have the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> problem in LA. IN the SF Bay area, think about the fires and chemical releases and violation of emissions standards in the Richmond/Martinez refineries.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/06/plastic-advanced-recycling-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/06/plastic-advanced-recycling-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</a>(And the report itself, as well as other info, is at <a href="https://climateintegrity.org/projects/plastics-fraud" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://climateintegrity.org/projects/plastics-fraud</a>)<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AirQualityMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AirQualityMatters</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/toxicair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#toxicair</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FalseClimateSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FalseClimateSolutions</a>

Albert Cardona<a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ChrisMayLA6</a> Back in 2010 I was fortunate to find myself in Ladakh, in northern India, in the Dumra valley – the valley of flowers, in Tibetan. In the village of Thirit there was a little boy, who accepted a present from a tourist: a sweet. Took it, unwrapped it, and discretely dropped the plastic wrapping paper on the floor. Against the backdrop of sand, soil, and plants, the shiny wrap stood out like a sore. The tourist picked it up and, pointing to the nearest bin by a door, illustrated what one is supposed to do with it.What the tourist didn't understand is that the boy lived in a world were sweets were not wrapped in a material that can't decompose. Like my own grandma, back in inland Catalonia, who had no concept of trash: the refuse either went to animal feed, or to the compost pile, or to lit the wood stove. And it is this world that we seemed to have forgotten that actually has a future, because it is one were sustainability is baked in. One in which there is no need in the first place for unnecessary plastics.Ladakh had just emerged from a communal effort to clean up the land from the many plastic bottles that littered the landscape. The arrival of bottled water with their short-term convenience combined with unmatched expectations of what happens to the containers when abandoned – like the caramel wrap – led to a saturation of every canal and trail with empty bottles. Thankfully collective action addressed the issue – but largely banning such ill-thought out single-use containers. The rest of the world ought to follow suit: most of these plastics in the image are bottles.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/EcosystemCollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EcosystemCollapse</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/plastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plastics</a>

Albert CardonaHigh time we all start caring about the world we live in. About the choices we make."Previous research has found that fewer than 60 multinationals are responsible for more than half of the world’s plastic pollution, with six responsible for a quarter of that." <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/12/plastic-pollution-leaves-seabirds-chicks-with-brain-damage-similar-to-alzheimers-study-aoe" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/12/plastic-pollution-leaves-seabirds-chicks-with-brain-damage-similar-to-alzheimers-study-aoe</a>Time to boicot: "Study confirms Altria, Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders" <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/24/survey-finds-that-60-firms-are-responsible-for-half-of-worlds-plastic-pollution" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/24/survey-finds-that-60-firms-are-responsible-for-half-of-worlds-plastic-pollution</a>It's our very livelihood at stake. <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/EcosystemCollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EcosystemCollapse</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/NoPlanetB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoPlanetB</a>

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0The first commercial synthetic plastic was Bakelite, 1907. Less than 120 years ago. So how do back out of the garbage dump we've created? How do we eliminate the convenience (but not essential) uses? How do we develop suitable alternatives where polymeric materials are essential for critical (not convenience) applications?<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/18/turkey-said-it-would-become-a-zero-waste-nation-instead-it-became-a-dumping-ground-for" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/18/turkey-said-it-would-become-a-zero-waste-nation-instead-it-became-a-dumping-ground-for</a> -europes-rubbish?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a> - because <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plastic</a> is not compatible with a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CircularEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CircularEconomy</a>

Jochen FrommParts of the world have finally begun to realize the magnitude of interconnected global crises: <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climatechange</a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/plasticpollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plasticpollution</a>, resource depletion and ecological collapse. The primary cause is as anthropologist Jason Hickel argues in his book that <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> demands perpetual expansion, which is wreaking havoc on the natural, living world <a href="https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more</a>

Earthworm 🐌mulch in horticulture: microplastic rant

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0In the "When will we ever learn" category. There is precious little you can trust that comes out of the mouths of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigOil</a>. And since the penalties for non-compliance are trivial compared to the profits of non-compliance, and there is no personal liability for the C-suite, there is no reason for them to do better.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/11/pennsylvania-water-shell-oil?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/11/pennsylvania-water-shell-oil?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ToxicAir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ToxicAir</a> - the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a> starts well before the plastic is discarded

Jungbaumbeauftragter_in_spe<a href="https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@NatureMC</a> <a href="https://photog.social/@FotoVorschlag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@FotoVorschlag</a> Yes, I also often see the agricultural legacies from which this can arise. Significant. Because the value of farmers for the environment is described more positively, as a landscape conservation service for society. Side effect often <a href="https://machteburch.social/tags/plasticpollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plasticpollution</a>

Jungbaumbeauftragter_in_spe<a href="https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@NatureMC</a> <a href="https://photog.social/@FotoVorschlag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@FotoVorschlag</a> Ja, die landwirtschftlichen Hinterlassenschaften aus denen sowas entstehen kann, sehe ich auch oft. Bezeichnend. Denn der Wert der Landwirte für die Mitwelt, wird positiver umschrieben, als Landschaftspflegedienstleistung für die Gesellschaft. Nebeneffekt oft <a href="https://machteburch.social/tags/plasticpollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plasticpollution</a>

Not RappaportCoca-Cola accused of quietly dropping its 25% reusable packaging target<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/03/coca-cola-accused-dropping-reusable-packaging-target?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/03/coca-cola-accused-dropping-reusable-packaging-target?CMP=share_btn_url</a><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#greenwashing</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/recycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#recycling</a>

🌎 Excubitor ❤️‍🔥1196 🇺🇦 🌍<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Servicetweet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Servicetweet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Umwelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Umwelt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Umweltschutz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Umweltschutz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plastik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Plastik</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a> ➡️ Eine neue Studie konstatiert: "Mit nur 4 Maßnahmen ließe sich Plastikmüll um 91 % reduzieren" <a href="https://utopia.de/news/studie-mit-nur-4-massnahmen-liesse-sich-plastikmuell-um-91-prozent-reduzieren-v2_752068/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://utopia.de/news/studie-mit-nur-4-massnahmen-liesse-sich-plastikmuell-um-91-prozent-reduzieren-v2_752068/</a> 1/x

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Our <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#toxic</a> world, where <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PFAS</a> collaborate to do more damage, and our regulatory regimes haven't caught up to the idea that there can be interactions between materials.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/25/pfas-microplastics-toxic?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/25/pfas-microplastics-toxic?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</a>

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0"...the split that had developed between plastic-producing countries and others." <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ShockedShockedToFInd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShockedShockedToFInd</a> that those adversely impacted have a different opitinion than those making money by creating the problem.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/24/world-unable-cope-10-years-talks-un-global-treaty-to-end-plastic-waste?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/24/world-unable-cope-10-years-talks-un-global-treaty-to-end-plastic-waste?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/plasticpollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plasticpollution</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/plasticpoisoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plasticpoisoning</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PoisoningForProfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoisoningForProfit</a>

CelloMom On Cars"The world will be “unable to cope” with the sheer volume of plastic waste a decade from now unless countries agree to curbs on production, the co-chair of a coalition of key countries has warned ahead of crunch talks on curbing global <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a>.Progress has stalled over a row about the need for cuts to the $712bn plastics industry. The final round of talks, which starts on Monday and is due to end on 1 December, is critical."<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/24/world-unable-cope-10-years-talks-un-global-treaty-to-end-plastic-waste" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/24/world-unable-cope-10-years-talks-un-global-treaty-to-end-plastic-waste</a>

Looking for explanations…Australia generates more plastic waste than any other country in the world per capita, other than Singapore. This is both astounding & totally unacceptable.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plastic</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PlasticPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlasticPollution</a> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-11-21/rural-supermarket-plastic-packaging-pub-today/104428684?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-11-21/rural-supermarket-plastic-packaging-pub-today/104428684?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other</a>

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