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The war on Iran exposes the real cost of plastics

Originally posted by Greenpeace International. The gravest consequences of the war are borne by people in Iran and across the region: lives lost, families displaced and essential infrastructure damaged. Its fossil fuel shock has also carried economic consequences far beyond the battlefield. The war on Iran triggered an oil market crisis that sent shockwaves far and wide, and some consequences are still unfolding. Impacts rippled beyond energy and transport into shops and supermarkets, pharmacies and homes. People everywhere are still paying. Nearly everything we buy, from shampoo bottles to strawberry packaging, is made from or with petrochemicals, wrapped in plastic, or both. But it does not have to be, and most people do not want it to be. The war exposed a hidden risk in the plastics economy. Plastic depends on fossil fuel feedstocks and global petrochemical supply chains. When oil and gas supplies are disrupted, the cost and availability of packaging, medical supplies and everyday goods are disrupted too. Households, public services and communities ultimately pay. The war has changed the terms of the debate around the Global Plastics Treaty. It has revealed the real costs of being tethered to the plastics supply chain. At the next round of...

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Advances and technical challenges in mono-material plastics design for sustainability

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Six ways the war on Iran exposed the real cost of plastics

The gravest consequences of the war are borne by people in Iran and across the region: lives lost, families displaced and essential infrastructure damaged. Its fossil fuel shock has also carried economic consequences far beyond the battlefield. The war on Iran triggered an oil market crisis that sent shockwaves far and wide, and some consequences are still unfolding. Impacts rippled beyond energy and transport into shops and supermarkets, pharmacies and homes. People everywhere are still paying. Nearly everything we buy, from shampoo bottles to strawberry packaging, is made from or with petrochemicals, wrapped in plastic, or both. But it does not have to be, and most people do not want it to be. The war exposed a hidden risk in the plastics economy. Plastic depends on fossil fuel feedstocks and global petrochemical supply chains. When oil and gas supplies are disrupted, the cost and availability of packaging, medical supplies and everyday goods are disrupted too. Households, public services and communities ultimately pay. The war has changed the terms of the debate around the Global Plastics Treaty. It has revealed the real costs of being tethered to the plastics supply chain. At the next round of treaty negotiations, governments have a...

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2ŁØT links with Mariel Jacoda on new single

2ŁØT arose from a period of uncertainty, bringing together five musicians who found themselves at a crossroads of personal and creative turbulence. By not allowing that disorder to define them, they t...

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Plastics Merged With Coral To Form "Plasticorals" Discovered On A Subtropical Japanese Beach

This work adds to the growing field of “plastiglomerates”, which are simply mixtures of sedimentary grains mixed with other natural materials bound together by plastics. They can be formed in a number of different ways, and have been proposed as a marker for the (contested) Anthropocene Epoch. In this case, the plasticorals are thought to have originated from people burning plastic on the beaches, and the subsequent melted polymers merging with the dead coral. <span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span> “As an emerging research area of marine litter pollution studies and geology, these plastic-rock formations present fresh ecotoxicological risks to marine ecosystems and could become potential stratigraphic markers of the Plasticene, especially in critical ecosystems such as coral reefs,” write the authors. The formation of plastic rocks This isn’t the first time that plastics have been found fusing with natural formations. In 2023, researchers from the Federal University of Paraná found “plastic rocks” on a remote volcanic island off the coast of Brazil. In this case, they suspect that the plastiglomerates formed as volcanic activity melted the plastic into the porous sedimentary rocks. "This is new and terrifying at the same time because pollution has reached...

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Headmaster shares remaster of "Making Waves"

London-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Headmaster’s story sits at an unusual overlap of music, leadership and community. Originally from North Wales, he's spent decades developing a creativ...

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Soul Pop from Kimaya Diggs

A fourth-generation artist based in Western Massachusetts, Kimaya Diggs has built a musical world where indie soul, jazz, R&amp;B and folk coalesce. Kimaya grew up singing with her sisters before deve...

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Chelle drops new single "Same Blue Sky"

Dublin-based artist Chelle has been making an impression in the modern pop music world, bringing together the soulful warmth of vintage influences with the forward momentum of contemporary electronic ...

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Alex Kilroy releases brand new single

Born in Transylvania, Alex Kilroy grew up with the feeling that his life was waiting somewhere beyond the horizon. An American flag hanging above his childhood bed became an early symbol of a future h...