Consumer Goods and Plastic Pollution

Consumer Goods Packaging Waste

A recent study by Oceana found that Amazon alone generated 465 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2019. Packing materials recyclability is often oversold. Currently, less than 14 percent of the nearly 86 million tons of plastic packaging produced globally each year is recycled. The vast majority is landfilled, incinerated, or left to pollute waterways poisoning and devastating wildlife. (cont...)

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Air Pollution

Global Warming From Fossil Fuels

The last time carbon dioxide levels on our planet were as high as today was more than 4 million years ago. Increased emissions of greenhouse gases have led to a rapid and steady increase in global temperatures, which in turn is causing catastrophic events all over the world... (cont.)

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Clothing and Fashion

Fast Fashion and Textile Waste

Fashion alone produces more greenhouse gas emissions than both the aviation and shipping sectors combined, and nearly 20% of global wastewater, or around 93 billion cubic meters is from textile dyeing. Plus related packaging and transport.

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Ocean Pollution V 2.o

Ocean Acidification

Global temperature rise has not only affected the surface, but it is the main cause of ocean acidification.

As higher concentrations of carbon emissions are released thanks to human activities, so do the amount of carbon dioxide that is absorbed back into the sea.

One of the biggest environmental problems from ocean acidification is coral bleaching and subsequent coral reef loss. Some scientists have estimated coral reefs are at risk of being completely wiped by 2050.

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Arctic and Polar ice Caps

Melting Arctic, Ice Caps and Sea Level Rise

The climate crisis is warming the Arctic more than twice as fast as anywhere else on the planet. Today, sea levels are rising more than twice as quickly as they did for most of the 20th century as a result of increasing temperatures on Earth.

Last year’s summer triggered the loss of 60 billion tons of ice from Greenland, enough to raise global sea levels by 2.2mm in just two months. According to satellite data, the Greenland ice sheet lost a record amount of ice in 2019: an average of a million tons per minute throughout the year.

The last fully intact ice shelf in Canada in the Arctic recently collapsed, having lost about 80 square kilometers – or 40% – of its area over a two-day period in late July, according to the Canadian Ice Service.

Polar vortexes, increased heat waves, and unpredictability of weather caused by ice loss are already causing significant damage to crops and wildlife on which global food systems depend.

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Cobalt and LITHIUM Mining

The Dirty Clean Energy- Cobalt and Lithium

Aside from the well known pollution and destruction of habitat associated with mining, there is the human factor.

Cobalt: A cobalt Article from Daily Mail UK describes the following: "The Congo boasts the richest reserve of cobalt in the world but workers are forced to endure inhumane working conditions and expose themselves to toxic chemicals. Barefoot children covered in chemicals, endlessly smashing open rocks for $2-a-day; exhausted new mothers with their babies strapped to them, sifting through nets of rocks in the hopes of finding the precious cobalt"... (cont...)  

Lithium: The entire lithium extraction process contributes to an increase in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Lithium miners cut down something and remove all other life forms from their targeted mining areas to eliminate obstructions. Lithium extraction requires a lot of water. To extract one ton of lithium, you need approximately 500,000 gallons of water and leads to unsustainable water table reduction leaving the land too dry and exposing ecosystems to the risk of extinction. (cont...)

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