What our garbage can tell us about the climate – New York Daily News
Perodic Table of Vidoes – DDT
A bit of a backstory about this chemical and the problems it poses.
Canada’s plastic recycling dumped and burned overseas | CBC News
Fumes spewed from the machinery as workers — wearing only T-shirts, sandals and no masks — at a recycling factory in northern Malaysia manually sorted through mountains of plastic scrap.
The workers, mainly from Bangladesh, earned around $12 a day, sometimes toiling seven days a week.
The labour was "very cheap," said one businessman, as he gave a tour to undercover CBC Marketplace journalists posing as plastics brokers from a fake Canadian company.