The plastic is (not so) great!

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by moinsdewatt » 13/06/19, 20:21

5 grams of plastic ingested per week: the government seizes ANSES

AFP • 13 / 06 / 2019

The government will seize the national health security agency (ANSES) after the publication of a scientific report, commissioned by the WWF, showing that an individual ingests up to 5 grams of plastic a week, the weight of a credit card.

"I seized ANSES so that it launches an in-depth detailed study to find out clearly what it is for the French", announced Thursday the Secretary of State for the Ecological Transition Brune Poirson on RMC.

“I want to base all my work on science, I don't know if this study is true, not true, wrong…”, she said. "But also, we must transform our production and consumption methods. We are always consuming more natural resources in order to consume products that we always consume less ... We want to transform that".
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by moinsdewatt » 17/06/19, 00:19

Where do the millions of microbeads of plastic that pollute the European rivers come from?

By SudOuest.fr with AFP on Sunday 16 June 2019

From the Thames to the Seine or the Rhine, the Tara Foundation investigates the origin of microplastics that pollute European rivers and flow into the seas and oceans, until we find ourselves on our plates.

“Microbeads! One blue, one rose!”: Armed with tweezers, Jean-François Ghiglione observes samples fished in the Thames by scientists from the Tara Foundation, in search of the source of the microplastics.

"We see things totally different from what we saw at sea, for example these very small microbeads" from cosmetic products, notes the scientific manager of the expedition, leaning in the middle of the night over a magnifying glass in the laboratory of the schooner Tara, moored in a London marina.

From the Pacific to the Arctic, this scientific vessel has witnessed the omnipresence in the seas of the world of microparticles of plastic, no bigger than a grain of rice.

More Tara has this time decided to throw 10 nets in the 15 largest European rivers, from the Thames to the Tiber via the Rhine, the Seine or the Tagus.

About 8 million tons of plastic end up each year in the oceans, of which 600.000 tons in Europe. Research on plastic pollution is recent and scientists have long thought that bottles, bags or straws were degraded at sea, under the effect of waves and sunlight. In fact, microplastics are already in rivers.

"Stop the leak"
So, this mission aims to "understand where it can come from: communities, gutters, industries, our everyday lives ...", says Romain Troublé, CEO of the Foundation.

"It is on our doorstep (...) The issue of plastic at sea, it is especially on land", insists the sailor and scientist, convinced that it is possible "to stop the leak" by starting already by removing everything the "superfluous packaging".

But to "stop the bleeding", we must also find the precise origins of the leak, in order to act better.

Scientists will therefore drag their white nets with ultra fine mesh on the ten rivers, at different levels of salinity, upstream and downstream of the major cities of the mouths.

Before an ant work in the onboard laboratory, where each piece of plastic between 1 and 5 mm is isolated with tweezers, cut in half, and placed individually in different tubes.

Half of the thousands of tubes stored by November will be used to identify types of plastic, and thus to trace back to the original products. The others will make it possible to list the species colonizing the "plastisphere", an artificial habitat which serves as a "raft" for many aquatic microorganisms.
The objective is in particular to identify "pathogenic bacteria capable of transmitting diseases from one animal to another", explains Jean-François Ghiglione.
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The page on the Tara Océan website https://oceans.taraexpeditions.org/en/m ... s-mission/

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Sampling is planned at the mouth of 10 major rivers in Europe: the Thames (England); the Elbe and Rhine (Germany); the Seine, Loire, Garonne and Rhone (France); the Tagus (Portugal); the Ebro (Spain); the Tiber (Italy).

Samples of microplastics (1 - 5mm), micro-metric particles (1-1000 μm) and nano-plastics (1-999 nm) will be collected on the surface and in the water column. These microplastics will provide clues and evidence to identify their origin, their size and chemical nature, and the target concentrations of microplastics.
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by moinsdewatt » 03/07/19, 21:33

Single-use plastic bags banned in New Zealand

THE PARISIAN • 01 / 07 / 2019

In August 2018, New Zealand announced its decision to ban any single-use plastic bag, with a fine for offenders up to 100 000 $ Zeland (59 170 €). Most supermarkets have already removed disposable bags, even compostable or bio-sourced since 1er last January.
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Re: The plastic is (not so) great!




by anthony76 » 04/07/19, 13:35

Hello
Plastics are real poluants and a true drain for nature.
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by to be chafoin » 04/07/19, 23:18

moinsdewatt wrote:
Single-use plastic bags banned in New Zealand

THE PARISIAN • 01 / 07 / 2019

In August 2018, New Zealand announced its decision to ban any single-use plastic bag, with a fine for offenders up to 100 000 $ Zeland (59 170 €). Most supermarkets have already removed disposable bags, even compostable or biobasedsince the 1er last January.
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I did not know that. We imagine that these bags are so polluting. Or is it a saving measure?
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by moinsdewatt » 11/07/19, 23:55

In Japan, nine fallow deer from a tourist site died after ingesting plastic

"The largest amount found in any of the nine animals was 4,3 kg," said an official with the Nara Deer Preservation Foundation.
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by moinsdewatt » 16/09/19, 23:44

Lilly, 12 years old, Thailand's Greta Thunberg at war with plastics

AFP • 16 / 09 / 2019

"I am a child at war". Lilly, 12, skips school, climbs on her paddle board and paddles through a Bangkok canal filled with trash that she carefully picks up. Its fight: plastic in Thailand, the sixth largest contributor to ocean pollution.
In June, the American-Thai teenager won her first victory: helping convince a major distributor in Bangkok, Central, not to issue single-use bags in her supermarkets once a week.

In the process, other distribution groups established in Thailand, including the operator of the Japanese chain 7-Eleven omnipresent in the kingdom, pledged in early September to stop giving from January 2020.

"This is going in the right direction," Lilly smirked, pushing her paddle down to approach a bag full of rusty cans and ripped bottles.

“At first I was too young to be an activist, but Greta (Thunberg) gave me confidence. When adults don't do anything, it's up to us children to act.”

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Ralyn Satidtanasarn, says Lilly, will not be in New York alongside the young Swedish muse of the fight against global warming, for the parade organized on September 20 a few days before the UN climate conference. She will demonstrate in Bangkok. "My place is here. The fight must also be done in Southeast Asia," she said.

Recently, several countries in the region - Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia - have stepped up to the plate, refusing to be "the trash" of the West, and have returned full containers of waste. plastics directly to the sender.

But they continue to generate astronomical quantities on their territory.

In Thailand, the plastic bag is omnipresent to pack hundreds of thousands of meals served in street canteens, drinks brought to work ... A Thai uses an average of eight per day, or about 3.000 per year, of after government data, 12 times more than in the European Union.

And Thailand is the 6e biggest contributor to ocean pollution, according to environmental NGO Greenpeace.
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by moinsdewatt » 26/09/19, 07:50

Plastic in the water of the tea, the bags questioned
Study shows the release of billions of microparticles of plastic in tea when it is packaged and infused into nylon or PET bags


By Sylvie Burnouf 25 seven 2019 LeMonde

Are you more black tea, green tea or tea… with microplastics? The question arises, as a Canadian study, published September 25 in ACS Environmental Science & Technology, reveals that plastic tea bags release, under the effect of heat, a multitude of microparticles in the water. . These sachets, often silky in appearance, have recently appeared on the tea and herbal tea market, alongside the more traditional paper pouches.

The team of researchers decided to analyze the bags of four different brands, which they do not reveal the names. After discarding the small wire containers from the tea leaves they contained, they were rinsed with clean water to remove any contaminants and infused into 95 ° C for 5 minutes. which approaches the standard conditions of use.

Their results are instructive: not only does the infusion of the bags lead to the contamination of the water with plastic material - nylon or PET (polyethylene terephthalate), depending on the nature of the bag analyzed - but the number of particles " liberated "is also astronomical. A single tea bag can thus release more than 2 millions of plastic particles ranging in size from 1 to 150 micrometers, and nearly 15 billion particles measuring less than 1 micrometer (including about 20% nanoparticles, diameter less than 100 nanometers). In the end, it's 13 to 16 micrograms of plastic that end up in the water of a simple cup of tea.

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Re: The plastic is (not so) great!




by moinsdewatt » 05/10/19, 16:21

The Ocean Cleanup began collecting plastic in the Pacific
Boyan Slat, a 25-year-old founder of Ocean Cleanup, who was talked about when he launched his "ocean cleaner," said he caught large-scale plastic for the first time.

The HuffPost with AFP 02 Oct 2019
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https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/pol ... 11e114e2bb

They talk about recovering 15 000 tons of plastic a year, which is ridiculous compared to the plastic that reaches all oceans in the world at 8 million tons per year, see this post: http://www.oleocene.org/phpBB3/viewtopi ... 07#p385407


video of 1mn in the yard about Oceancleanup https://lemarin.ouest-france.fr/secteur ... an-cleanup

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by moinsdewatt » 05/10/19, 16:22

Ah, finally an article that describes the new principle of the Ocean Cleanup system that works better :)
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https://trustmyscience.com/dispositif-n ... rectement/

The mechanical function of the cylindrical float and the collection function are now dissociated.

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Here is the detail of the plastic waste cleaning device. 1) The X-shaped tube. 2) Thanks to wind and waves, the device moves with the waste and other harvested plastics. 3) An anchor parachute that can slow down the device. 4) Every few weeks, a boat comes to collect the waste for recycling.

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Analysis of plastics caught

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