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Disrupting Disposables
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The Drive to Banish Single-Use Plastics
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Space & Treasure Coast Edition
by Yvette C. Hammett
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niversities, There is momentum, also adds to greenhouse sports arenas, gases that contribute to but it is challenging. the climate crisis. restaurants and other businesses are Two-pronged efforts ~Eric DesRoberts taking up the call to by businesses and “disrupt disposables” as part of a global individuals to divert plastics from effort to dramatically cut down on the waste system and replacing them single-use plastics. The environmental with Earth-friendly alternatives will problems caused by those ubiquitous eventually pay off, experts say, but it will throwaways have become a mainstay of be a long and slow process. However, news reporting, and studies on how best momentum is building, spurred by to reduce them through public policy consumer demand and a growing abound. A recent Canadian research paper number of enterprising businesses, in the Marine Pollution Bulletin explores organizations and academic institutions. strategies such as bans, tax levies and At Penn State University, agriculture education. Experts agree that it is not just and biological engineering professor a litter problem, but a sobering matter of Judd Michael is working with sports human and planetary health. facilities to lower both plastics use and As these plastics wind up in the littering; the initiative is working so oceans and landfills worldwide, they can well that their approaches may be taken languish virtually intact for up to 1,000 up by other schools across the nation. years, entangling and choking marine “One of my projects is with NASCAR’s mammals and terrestrial wildlife. Or, Pocono Raceway [also in Pennsylvania], they break into toxic microplastics that where the owners of the track wanted to enter drinking water supplies, eventually continue to make the venue more green,” ingested by humans. Because plastics are he says. “There is zero waste in suites made from petroleum, their production for that track, and they are initiating a MyNaturalAwakenings.com
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