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by Jan Lundberg
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12 March 2010 |
 "Coming after You" means both your legacy of non-biodegradable plastics and that they are out to kill you. Now that the hilarious double entendre is out of the way, we can go on to our patient heroines. The nurturing, brave journalists about to be presented are patient as heroines and they succor untold numbers of unknown patients suffering from plastic-caused diseases. For you hardy men who may not care about this girly-men stuff, and pride yourselves in being out to have a good time, keep in mind that erectile dysfunction is on the rise thanks to plastics. |
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by Jan Lundberg / Steve Connor
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21 August 2009 |
 Today's world requires as never before that we all accept change and be part of it proactively. Mounting evidence shows there is no time to wait for people to decide to catch on in their own time. No better example of this exists than the plastic plague. Until we stop participating in trashing the planet and ourselves we are slashing away at our planetary wrists in ecocide. |
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by Sarah (Steve) Mosko, Ph.D.
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15 August 2009 |
 [With commentary by Jan Lundberg]
This coming holiday season, parents shopping for children can rest a bit easier because of a recent California law restricting the use of toxic phthalate plasticizers in toys and childcare products made of plastic. Two additional classes of chemicals suspected of posing health risks to children, bisphenol A and |
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by Jan Lundberg
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19 July 2009 |
 Captain Charles Moore is today one of several men of the hour. But if there are people on this planet hundreds of years from now, surrounded by all the non-biodegradable, toxic petrochemical plastic saturating the oceans, |
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by Jan Lundberg
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23 March 2009 |
 Petroleum-based plastics have only in the last several years been discovered to be an unmitigated disaster. Oceans are being filled with this mess of nonbiodegradable poison that cannot be cleaned up. Plastics, their additives and toxins attached to them in the oceans enter our bodies and damage our hormones and genes. So, is it agroplastics to the rescue?
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by Jan Lundberg
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12 March 2009 |
 Culture Change Letter #241 - A widely reported story on ocean trash cites the huge Ocean Conservancy group. The group's new report misleads, in that it avoids concluding that the trash
problem facing the ocean is overwhelmingly one of plastic. |
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by Jane Kay
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11 March 2009 |
Bending to growing public and legal pressure that began in San Francisco, California, six major companies have agreed to stop selling hard-plastic baby bottles containing bisphenol A, an industrial chemical suspected of harming human development. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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23 December 2008 |
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Culture Change Letter #222 -
There are two healthy trends going together: rejecting plastic water bottles, and appreciating good ol' tap water. Reasons include the need to cut waste: at best, 17% of plastic water bottles are recycled. Only about one percent of plastic bags are recycled. Of these and other plastics, over 99.9% of it is petroleum. Landfills and incinerators handle the great bulk of this non-biodegradable toxic trash, and a huge amount resides in the oceans. Regarding the major issue of appreciating water as a right or public utility, paying for water to enrich corporations is anathema to more and more of us.
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Plastics Plague 
