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Swaantje Güntzel
Setzkasten XL

Display case filled with toys washed ashore the beaches of Kure and Midway Atoll and swallowed by Laysanalbatrosses. The albatrosses were found with stomachs filled with plastic objects on both atolls (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands).

Realized with the help of Kure Atoll Conservancy.

[Swaantje Güntzel, Setzkasten XL, 2018, plastics, wood, glass, 41, 3x 31,5 cm]

Foto: Tobias Hübel

#art #conceptualart #contemporaryart #kunst #konzeptkunst #zeitgenössischekunst #object #marinedebris #pacific #kureatoll #midwayatoll #midway #pazifik #waste #toys #spielzeuge #beach #strand #kureatollconservancy #plastik #plastics #laysanalbatros #albatrosse #swaantjeguentzel #swaantjegüntzel
#swaantjeguntzel
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CelloMom On Cars

"The review synthesizes the extensive scientific evidence showing that #FossilFuels and the fossil fuel industry are fueling not only the #climate crisis but also public health harms, environmental injustice, #biodiversity loss, and the #plastics and agrochemical pollution crises."

phys.org/news/2025-03-fossil-f
#Polycrisis

Phys.org · Fossil fuels drive climate, health and biodiversity crises, scientists warnBy Center for Biological Diversity
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CelloMom On Cars

"First and foremost, the campaigners are calling for a reduction in the production of plastic.

“The single-use #plastics that we are being inundated with in our life everywhere, when we have other options, are basically Big Oil’s way of continuing to push for the expansion of the fossil fuel industry,” says Dr Singh."

euronews.com/green/2025/03/29/

Reminder: Plastics "Recycling" is a MYTH.

Coca-Cola and Unilever among dozens of plastic brands tied to Texas fracking, investigation reveals
euronews · New investigation links Texas fracking to European plasticsMore than 25 major consumer brands and petrochemicals have been traced to fracking in the Permian Basin, one of the world’s ‘carbon bombs’.
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"Chewing gum, whether natural or synthetic, contains plant-based or synthetic plastic polymers to enhance texture and flavor retention, making it a source of microplastics, explained the pilot study, which was presented at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego. And those microplastics can be ingested through saliva—with 94% released within the first eight minutes of chewing, they found."

fortune.com/well/2025/03/27/ch

Fortune · Chewing gum is shedding harmful microplastics into your saliva, study findsBy Beth Greenfield
#PublicHealth#gum#plastics
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CelloMom On Cars

Gasoline use is down. Oil companies are looking to plastics to bail them out.

"Oil demand increased at a much slower pace than in previous years, falling below 30% of global energy consumption for the first time as more EVs hit the roads. Instead, the bulk of oil demand growth came from petrochemical feedstocks—the raw materials used to produce #plastics and some chemicals—which increased more than 12% over five years."

theenergymix.com/climate-chang
#IEA

The Energy Mix · Climate Change Contributes to Surge in Global Energy Demand: IEABy Mitchell Beer
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Albert Cardona

@ChrisMayLA6 Back in 2010 I was fortunate to find myself in Ladakh, in northern India, in the Dumra valley – the valley of flowers, in Tibetan. In the village of Thirit there was a little boy, who accepted a present from a tourist: a sweet. Took it, unwrapped it, and discretely dropped the plastic wrapping paper on the floor. Against the backdrop of sand, soil, and plants, the shiny wrap stood out like a sore. The tourist picked it up and, pointing to the nearest bin by a door, illustrated what one is supposed to do with it.

What the tourist didn't understand is that the boy lived in a world were sweets were not wrapped in a material that can't decompose. Like my own grandma, back in inland Catalonia, who had no concept of trash: the refuse either went to animal feed, or to the compost pile, or to lit the wood stove. And it is this world that we seemed to have forgotten that actually has a future, because it is one were sustainability is baked in. One in which there is no need in the first place for unnecessary plastics.

Ladakh had just emerged from a communal effort to clean up the land from the many plastic bottles that littered the landscape. The arrival of bottled water with their short-term convenience combined with unmatched expectations of what happens to the containers when abandoned – like the caramel wrap – led to a saturation of every canal and trail with empty bottles. Thankfully collective action addressed the issue – but largely banning such ill-thought out single-use containers. The rest of the world ought to follow suit: most of these plastics in the image are bottles.

#EcosystemCollapse#PlasticPollution#plastics
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

If any part of the green transition depends on the global recycling of plastics, then we might s well give up right now.... nearly half of all plastics are dumped in landfill, while less than 10% are recycled. Around 20% or more (including some of the 'mismanaged') are incinerated, no doubt adding more pollution to our degrading atmosphere.

We need a better solution to the one we are currently practicing!

Chart: Sorting the world's plastic. How much plastic waste actually gets recycled globally: 49% landfilled; 22% mismanaged; 19% incinerated; 9% recycled data from OECD (2023)
#GreenTransition#plastics#recycling
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hanno

A fossil-free plastics plant could start production in a few years in Belgium - with a technology that is currently used to make plastics from coal. 🌿🧪🏭 #plastics #mto #chemicals #decarbonization
In September last year, A. P. Møller Holding, the largest shareholder of shipping giant 🚢 Maersk, announced the launch of the startup Vioneo. It wants to make plastics from green Methanol. This is, in my view, one of the most interesting developments in industrial decarbonization in recent months. 🧵

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P3KO | Petrified activist 🐧

Analysis of young sable shearwaters, a migratory bird that travels between Australia’s Lord Howe Island and Japan, has found that plastic waste is causing damage to seabird chicks not apparent to the naked eye, including decay of the stomach lining, cell rupture and neurodegeneration.

#Plastics #SeaBirds #Marinelife #Pollution

>> theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study showsBy Patrick Greenfield
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P3KO | Petrified activist 🐧

Thousands of nurdles, which pose a danger to wildlife, have begun to wash up on Norfolk beaches and the surrounding coast

The coastguard said the pellets, made of plastic resin and known as nurdles, were spotted by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and have begun to wash up in melted clumps on beaches in Norfolk and the surrounding coast

>> theguardian.com/business/2025/

#haveri #Pohjanmeri #Muovi
#NorthSea #Shipping #Plastics #Pollution

A photo issued by the RSPB of plastic pellets on the shoreline at Titchwell Marsh in King's Lynn, Norfolk, following the collision in the North Sea. Photograph: RSPB/PA The Guardian 2025-0317
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Dr. Melanie Bergmann

💔 „Blood tests on migratory chicks fed #plastics by their parents show neurodegeneration, as well as cell rupture and stomach lining decay.“ We urgently need to curb plastic production in a global #PlasticsTreaty to prevent harm to us and our fellow beings!
theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study showsBy Patrick Greenfield
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Curtis Nordgaard

“Thus, we postulate that the exponentially increasing environmental concentrations of MNPs (micro- and nanoplastics) may analogously increase internal maximal concentrations.”

Authors’ comment after finding that brains of all ages from 2024 had 47% more plastic than brains of all ages from 2016 (median weights). Age was not a factor.

#EnvironmentalHealth #Plastics #Dementia

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