John Bushe of Adbongo on Zero Waste Technologies
A very interesting overview of zero waste efforts ...
Materials and Waste
On Front Lines of Recycling, Turning Food Waste into Biogas
San Francisco closer to turning zero-waste ambition into reality
LA Mountain Lion A Poster Cat For California’s Rat Poison Problem
One sick kitty ...
Child Entertained For 5 Minutes By Plastic Toy That Will Take 1,000 Years To Biodegrade
To be fair, plastics are made out of a 'waste' product from oil and gas production, and while plastics don't rot, they certainly do burn as they are made out of naptha (a gradation of oil) or natural gas liquids.
Noryl Plastics – Wikipedia
Noryl is a blend of polyphenylene oxide (PPO) and polystyrene (PS) which was developed in 1966 by General Electric Plastics (now owned by SABIC). It is a rare example of a homogeneous mixture of two polymers. Most polymers are incompatible with one another, so tend to produce separate phases when mixed. The two polymers compatibility in Noryl is due to the presence of a benzene ring in the repeat units of both chains.
Noryl Plastics are the type of plastic manufactured in Fuera Bush SABIC plant, formally owned by General Electric Plastics. Noryl is a polymer that is blended with compressed styrofoam to make a rigid, high-temperature plastic often used in electronic like televisions, and automobiles.
A Frightening Field Guide to Common Plastics
Hardly surprising. But we are all going to die from something or another.