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Friday, December 20, 2013

Awash in Plastics

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Maybe I'll start a graphic of the week as I do with the video. Here's one from Upworthy posted originally HERE.

It was a Scientific American story about micro-plastic beads in our grooming products that sounded the RED ALERT for me. Read the story HERE. The SA story and the Upworthy graphic will make you wonder just how much awash we are in toxic plastics.

A good read on this whole subject is What's Gotten Into Us?:Staying Healthy in a Toxic World by Mckay Jenkins. Grist interviews the author HERE.

In the 1967 classic, The Graduate, Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) was much better off escaping in the end with Elaine Robinson (Katherine Ross) then taking this advice:


But that's hindsight and it may be too late.

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