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To even begin to understand the size of our plastic problem, we need a little help from ships, Shakespeare, and the Roman empire. 
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New plastic PDK can be broken down at a molecular level and come back just as strong to be reused again and again.
Al Cannistra's insight:
we are in overtime... survival may depend on it... . .
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Alan Jamieson remembers seeing it for the first time: a small, black fiber floating in a tube of liquid. It resembled a hair, but when Jamieson examined it under a microscope, he realized that the fiber was clearly synthetic—a piece of plastic. And worryingly, his student Lauren Brooks had pulled it from the gut of a small crustacean living in one of the deepest parts of the ocean.
Al Cannistra's insight:
"The world produces an estimated 10 tons of plastic a second" - SCARY THOUGHT!
How long before there is no room - on the planet?
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A huge sea of plastic trash is swirling in the North Pacific — part of an even broader plastic plague that's growing in oceans worldwide.
Al Cannistra's insight:
sadly - it is not a good place... . .
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One of the greatest threats to the world's water is plastic.
Al Cannistra's insight:
shocking photos of a planet in trouble... . the question: how to fix it? . .
Candace Seubert's curator insight,
April 1, 2019 10:27 AM
I am all for ditching straws but we also have to realize that there are so many more sources of plastic that affect ocean life. We need to continue making these kinds of steps in the future and not just come to a plateau because we stopped using plastic straws.
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From Buckingham Palace to the BBC, British institutions are putting the kibosh on single-use plastic.
Al Cannistra's insight:
maybe the world should follow... . .
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INCREDIBLY SCARY THOUGHT - "Recognizable analogies—it's the same mass as 1 billion elephants—result in similarly large and difficult-to-comprehend quantities. That's 2,500 times the number of elephants that actually exist."
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