Month: January 2019

There is reason for hope, but we all have to act NOW.

The biggest problem with plastic is also its greatest strength: it lasts forever. It doesn’t break down. Since the widespread use of plastics began, around the time I was born in the 1960s, we have poured a steady avalanche of...

Occasionally a tale of childhood turns up in the soil broken by spade and hoe as we dig up ancient roots:   once a small hard rubber ball that now rests on the top shelf of my bookcase; once a tiny black   horse of...

A disposable water bottle these days is an astounding piece of engineering. Of course, these are flimsy, cheap substitutes and almost collapse when the water is gone. But I can look at them as a piece of magic. It is a skin for...

HELP! HELP ME! Iam drowning in a quicksand of plastic. I’m being sucked under into a shiny morass of polymers, asphyxiated inside a plastic bag. Here is my lunch, a healthy serving of tofu and kale, sitting in a plastic take-out...