If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

This report explores the latest science on threats from plastics, petrochemicals, and climate change that impact Arctic People: stoppoisonplastic.org/blog/portfol... It highlights the voices and testimonies of Indigenous leaders who are engaged in efforts to protect their land and People.

This is 2025... #recycling #Turkey #waste #plastic

"If the intent was to jolt the majority awake, Vayas got what he wanted. His initial draft functioned as a kind of shock therapy, illustrating what a treaty would look like should the progressive bloc fail to unite." @magnuslovold.bsky.social on the #plasticstreaty 🤯 medium.com/points-of-or...

a month on, @magnuslovold.bsky.social comments on the final day of UN global plastic treaty negotiations in Geneva there were rumours circulating in whatsapp groups about UNEP engaging in what might best be termed 'discretionary governance' - this blog details some of the chaos that unfolded

"The capacity of crops to accumulate nanoplastics has remained relatively unexplored... the present study employed radiolabelling to demonstrate, for the 1st time, that polystyrene NPs accumulate & move into the edible tissues of radishes." 🥗 #plasticstreaty www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Plastics found inside vegetable tissues: www.earth.com/news/plastic...

We have just added a new #bookprofile to the Environment & Society Portal: 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘴𝘦 by Dr. Sayan Dey. You can now read the full book via our Multimedia Library: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/garbocra... #rccportal #envhum #envhist #india #garbage #openaccess

Something good: a new, nonprofit newsroom run by some wonderful, experienced folks (core crew from Outside mag's glory days) dedicated to journalism about American public lands! Looks like the plan is to collaborate a fair bit with other outlets.

Very helpful visual of #PFAS family, thanks to @toxicsfree.bsky.social @gridarendal.bsky.social Available here: ipen.org/sites/defaul...

Finished episode 1. Then 2, then immediately 3. Afterwards, sat in stunned silence, letting it sink in. For young Afghan refugees in Turkey, plastics recycling is a means of survival, means risking death: 2 deaths/month over the last 10 years. #plasticstreaty www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

"...We are making & discarding so much plastic that it has become a substantial component of the global carbon cycle..." Aron Stubbins (The Plastics Center at Northeastern University) on Pang et al's piece on plastics & the marine carbon cycle in NatureSustainability www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A rapidly growing body of research has consistently shown how pervasive and problematic #microplastics have become. A 2024 #ScienceReview provides an overview of this research and the progress made in understanding these pollutants. https://scim.ag/4nePO4G #ScienceMagArchives

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. Via @us.theconversation.com

👩 Meet Linda Maraniss ⭐ In 1986, she visited Padre Island National Seashore, in Texas. 🏖️ She expected a beach. 🤢 She found a landfill. ▶️ Listen to ep 2 of our "Early Heroines of Plastic Pollution" series to find out what happened afterwards tinyurl.com/4xsvnbv3 #InternationalCoastalCleanup

On McDonald’s historical push into plastics recycling in the 1990s before abandoning the polystyrene clamshell altogether. Out from Saabira Chaudhuri, author of Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooker on Plastic via @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com/inside-mcdon... #plasticstreaty

h/t @sgundogdu.bsky.social #plasticstreaty @toxicsfree.bsky.social @gaiazerowaste.bsky.social @breakfreefromplastic.org

In a new interview, journalist Saabira Chaudhuri explains how the plastics industry persuaded consumers to embrace disposability — no matter the costs.

Supermarkets should facilitate the infrastructure needed for reusable packaging solutions! Read the report 👇 breakfreefromplastic.org/supermarket-audit 4/4

In Pennsylvania, a plastics company has agreed to continuously monitor its stormwater and wastewater outflows for tiny plastic "nurdles" — and pay up if any of the pellets are detected. Green groups are hopeful that this will become standard practice. @grist.org grist.org/solutions/pl...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

In this episode, @anjakrieger.bsky.social celebrates the 40th International Coastal Cleanup Day and explores its history with Elsa Devienne, an assistant professor in US history at Northumbria University in the UK. It’s a huge event which has been taking place each 3rd Saturday of September.

"Restoring trust in science -- A pair of authors offer a “battle plan” for combating antiscience sentiment" | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by @meganranney.bsky.social for #ScienceMagazine: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A 1993 plastics industry memo (Vinyl Institute), as it coordinated the response to a scientific, regulatory attack on chlorine. "Virtually all are derivatives," said VI. Chlorine defended as "foundational" to plastics production. #plasticstreaty Via ToxDocs www.toxicdocs.org/d/0LKVaRzZgY...

I came across so much litter and plastic pollution on my run. These spoons reminded me of the recent study finding a spoonful of nanoplastics within the brain. While we don’t know how they got there, the environment we pollute can impact us in ways that researchers are rapidly working to understand

🌬️ 1/2 Our new review on #plastic and microbes in the air that we breath, i.e.„Potential planetary health impacts of the airborne plastisphere“, is out 👇 #plastic #microplastic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It is plum cake season. So there’s that. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/3783...

So sites that expand public (read-only) access to content (e.g., Internet Archive, Sci-Hub) are getting slapped by courts, while AI majors are allowed to use all manner of texts at will to train and spit out "new" writing as if original. Am I getting this right? cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

Excellent reporting on endocrine disrupting chemicals in plastics. Some of them suggested for a global ban under a future #plasticstreaty.

Pennsylvania plastic producer held accountable for nurdle/preproduction plastic pollution into local river system. insideclimatenews.org/news/0409202... #plasticstreaty

“Deep relationship is a sensation of the particular, held in the eager tilt of a lead dog’s ears before a run or the feel of an old scar left by a salmon’s tooth.” An essay on the mighty but sometimes overlooked chum salmon & dogs & rivers & love #envhist #rivers www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Bought this for myself — a birthday gift — the latest from @peterbrannen.bsky.social — @jaimealyse.bsky.social made me do it. 🌱

🎧 If you've missed it, here's our weekend listen on the outcome and outlook of the #plasticstreaty negotiations: Featuring wonderful @arharrington1.bsky.social and powerful interventions from negotiators of Colombia, Panama, Kenya and Tuvalu and the #INC52 Chair. m.soundcloud.com/plastisphere...

Reminder to all fellow parents that we have two jobs: keep our kids safe and give them a future The climate crisis is a parenting crisis. Among other things. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Had the great pleasure of reviewing @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s extraordinary new book (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...

The #PlasticsTreaty is really a Global Fossil Fuels Treaty, as global controls on plastics, are global controls on #FossilFuels. Watch Exposing Problems From Toxic Chemicals in Plastics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6GH... #toxicplastics #keepitintheground #climatechange

Because destroying the US is not enough, Trump is using tariffs, visa restrictions, and trade deals to pressure other countries to abandon climate goals and increase fossil fuel use, further destroying the world and the future.

We're breathing in #microplastics and #nanoplastics. A lot more than we thought. This is Not Good. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"...the latest version removed explicit production caps and softened language on chemicals of concern, drawing criticism from countries and civil society groups seeking stronger measures." Read more: eutoday.net/global-plast... @zerowasteeurope.eu #PlasticsTreaty #INC5_2 #couragenotcompromise

Incisive, short piece by my colleague Dr. Shahriar Hossain on the #plasticstreaty. My only quibble: don't look to Washington and Beijing for leadership, look to Africa, Latin America, and the small island states. www.thedailystar.net/opinion/view...

Podcast alert 🔔 Our recap of the #plasticstreaty negotiations - with @arharrington1.bsky.social m.soundcloud.com/plastisphere...

New photojournalism from #CancerAlley USA Wayan Barre for Scalawag This. This is #plastics. 🚨🚨🚨 This is why the #plasticstresty must foreground human health and human rights, must center fenceline and frontline communities and workers scalawagmagazine.org/2025/04/behi...

‘A double-whammy problem’: how #plastic dust is altering natural processes www.nature.com/articles/d41... #plasticpollution

Indigenous People, including people from the Arctic, are disproportionately impacted by plastic pollution - hear Vi Pangunnaaq Waghiyi from Alaska Community Action on Toxics describe her participation at the Plastic Treaty talks last week.

💊 New study using polystyrene and polylactic acid (PLA) suggests a Trojan horse 🐴 effect meaning that the presence of #nanoplastics increases the bioaccumulation of drugs (antibiotics: ciprofloxacin and metronidazole) due to their high reactivity. #plastic journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Give yourself the gift of fifteen minutes with the latest essay from @brdemuth.bsky.social 🐾 — me and two dozen @brown-ibes.bsky.social seniors got to write alongside her last fall — come see for yourself why that was such a delight, such a profound learning experience. 🐾 Via @nybooks.com

Spot-on analysis of the last round of #PlasticsTreaty negotiations in Geneva 🔽

Vi Pangunnaaq Waghiyi from Alaska is a Yupik Mother and Grandmother. She traveled to Geneva to engage in the Plastic Treaty talks, bringing a message that Indigenous People from around the world need to be at the table when decisions that impact their lives and lands are made.

Watch: IPEN Executive Director Björn Beeler speaks with CBS News to discuss the end of the Geneva session of the Plastics Treaty negotiations (INC-5.2) and the need for a meaningful, global agreement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSur...