Reducing single-use/disposable plastic

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run free Feb 2019 9:56pm, 18 Feb 2019 3,353 posts	0 run free Do you think it's a trend?
run free Feb 2019 10:23pm, 18 Feb 2019 3,354 posts	0 run free nytimes.com
run free Feb 2019 9:55pm, 27 Feb 2019 3,359 posts	0 run free IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Glastonbury will not be selling single use plastic bottles & will be encouraging festival goers to BYOR cup/bottle/hydration device as they will be providing plenty of drinking water from water taps theguardian.com
run free Mar 2019 10:07am, 1 Mar 2019 3,361 posts	0 run free Interestingly Mosquito larvae have been found with micro-plastic in their bodies. Why is that a concern? Because it is in the food chain: independent.co.uk
cackleberry Mar 2019 1:39pm, 1 Mar 2019 1,628 posts	0 cackleberry I wonder how long before we find the first human with micro-plastic in their body? Will that accelerate the changes?
run free Mar 2019 4:23pm, 1 Mar 2019 3,362 posts	0 run free They have already found there is microplastic in our faeces: theguardian.com
Velociraptor Mar 2019 4:56pm, 1 Mar 2019 40,715 posts	0 Velociraptor If there's microplastic in fish and insect larvae, it would be surprising if it wasn't in humans.
cackleberry Mar 2019 10:38pm, 1 Mar 2019 1,630 posts	0 cackleberry Ah ok then. Next question is, how many people know that we already have micro-plastics inside us? And how many care?
run free Mar 2019 3:12pm, 2 Mar 2019 3,365 posts	0 run free At this moment not enough care otherwise you'd hear much more campaigning and many more groups out cleaning the beaches and riversides + harsher penalties on litter. Think this is because it is unknown about how it will affect humans and the research is still young. It is not an immediate affect on our health but guess it will play a subtle role in health disorders our generations will see or even now are seeing.
roberton Mar 2019 7:49pm, 3 Mar 2019 332 posts	0 roberton Also treating this as a binary “is it there or not” is surely over simplistic, complicating the matter. There’s a gazillion molecules in every human, there’s going to be a bit of everything. So I guess we need to understand the health impact of various amounts and types AND how our methods of detection work with that.

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Information about Plastic Packaging:
UK: wrap.org.uk

EU: ec.europa.eu

What products have microbeads?
beatthemicrobead.org

To help you reduce try one level at a time:https://tyrelady.wordpress.com/support-the-challenges/

What the EU is doing:
europa.eu

- currently the UK will be following SOME of the EU measures.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

Terms used to describe plastic:
1. Biodegradable (also oxi-biodegradable)
2. Bioplastic
3. Compostable
4. Plastic that potentially could be recycled (has numbers)
5. Plastic that cannot be recycled

Some resources:
BBC's info on the numbers on Plastics:
news.bbc.co.uk

The misconceptions of biodegradable plastics from an academic:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.7b04051?src=recsys&

Understanding plastic terms:
wrap.org.uk

Bioplastic developments as seen by British Plastic

britishplastics.co.uk

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