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The Dirty Truth About Plastic - Discover Magazine
From the May 2008 issue, published online April 18, 2008
Years ago, I profiled a theater designer who had just created 200 sumptuous costumes from garbage bags. Green, rose, black, white, sky blue, and see-through—the plastic was pliable and it pleated, flounced, puffed, fluffed, and glowed with reflected light. The title of that long-ago theater production was 33 Scenes on the Possibility of Human Happiness. From trash to the sublime, plastic was cheap, durable, endlessly protean, and astonishingly beautiful. Christo would agree.
How could that loveliness be linked to what seems its ugly opposite: the contortions and distortions that chemicals in plastic may have bequeathed us? The stunted testicles in fish and alligators; girls blooming breasts and pubic hair at an eerily young age; the steadily rising numbers of human males born with abnormal urethras; climbing rates of testicular and breast cancer; declining sperm counts. Not to mention the death of wildlife, particularly seabirds that mistakenly feast on discarded plastic. Those garbage-bag ball gowns are now married in my mind with a photo of a Laysan albatross whose belly, slashed open by biologists, was jammed with 306 pieces of plastic flotsam—a surreal bird version of a junkyard.
- The Dirty Truth About Plastic - Discover Magazine
- Oceanen meest vervuild door sigaretten en plastic
- Time2ACT event now online!
- Eco-warrior sets sail to save oceans from ‘plastic death’ - The Guardian
- Time2ACT in Leeuwarden - Persbureau Ameland
- Plastic afval - UT Nieuws
- UT studenten en medewerkers zoeken oplossing voor Plastic Soep - Universiteit Twente
- ‘Plastic soup’ in oceaan aangepakt vanuit Fryslân - Friesch Dagblad
- Time2ACT - iObserve
- Elke vierkante kilometer oceaan bedekt met 120.000 stukken plastic - Surfholland
- Evenement Time2ACT in Leeuwarden - Leeuwarden.nl
The Dirty Truth About Plastic - Discover Magazine
From the May 2008 issue, published online April 18, 2008
Years ago, I profiled a theater designer who had just created 200 sumptuous costumes from garbage bags. Green, rose, black, white, sky blue, and see-through—the plastic was pliable and it pleated, flounced, puffed, fluffed, and glowed with reflected light. The title of that long-ago theater production was 33 Scenes on the Possibility of Human Happiness. From trash to the sublime, plastic was cheap, durable, endlessly protean, and astonishingly beautiful. Christo would agree.
How could that loveliness be linked to what seems its ugly opposite: the contortions and distortions that chemicals in plastic may have bequeathed us? The stunted testicles in fish and alligators; girls blooming breasts and pubic hair at an eerily young age; the steadily rising numbers of human males born with abnormal urethras; climbing rates of testicular and breast cancer; declining sperm counts. Not to mention the death of wildlife, particularly seabirds that mistakenly feast on discarded plastic. Those garbage-bag ball gowns are now married in my mind with a photo of a Laysan albatross whose belly, slashed open by biologists, was jammed with 306 pieces of plastic flotsam—a surreal bird version of a junkyard.
Eco-warrior sets sail to save oceans from ‘plastic death’ - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/12/david-de-rothschild-plastiki-pacific
Time2ACT in Leeuwarden - Persbureau Ameland
gepubliceerd op 21 april 2009
Burgemeester Albert de Hoop was een van de sprekers op het evenement Time2ACT, dat maandagmiddag 20 april werd gehouden in Stadsschouwburg De Harmonie in Leeuwarden. Hij sprak ondermeer over de Amelander manier van milieujutten.
Het was een gedenkwaardige middag, zegt gemeente Leeuwarden. Niet alleen vanwege de stroomstoring die – alsof de duvel er mee speelde – pal voor het begin van het evenement een deel van de Leeuwarder binnenstad, waaronder de schouwburg platlegde, maar ook door de keur van bijzondere sprekers. Centraal stond het thema van de ‘plastic Soep’, de vervuiling van de wereldzeeën met plastic afval. Maar er was méér. In een sfeer van ‘de schouders eronder’ en ‘tijd voor actie’ werden ervaringen uitgewisseld, innovaties getoond en concrete uitvindingen gedemonstreerd, die de komende decennia een verschil kunnen maken. Deelnemers reageerden enthousiast: ‘Ik loop al jaren mee in de milieubeweging en het valt mij op dat dan de neiging bestaat om problemen heel erg groot te maken. Hier worden vooral oplossingen heel groot gemaakt.’