Posted by: TyentUSA On February 15, 2018 12:00 pm
Single use plastics take five minutes to produce, five minutes to use and 500 years to break down, the vice-president of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, told reporters recently.
In a move that highlights just how catastrophic the risk of choking the planet in plastic really is, the EU has announced a plan to ensure that by 2030, all packaging on the continent must be reusable or recyclable.
The move
Posted by: TyentUSA On February 13, 2018 12:00 am
It sounds obvious, but water is everywhere at the moment. From Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water cleaning up during awards season; the reckless craze for so-called “Raw Water”; the fact that South Africa’s Cape Town is about to reach Day Zero when the water runs out, and closer to home, that America’s own water supply is barely out of the news these days.
Water is
Posted by: TyentUSA On February 6, 2018 7:00 am
The cancer-causing contaminant Chromium-6, brought to the public gaze by Erin Brockovich, is at levels exceeding public health goals in 50 states.
Millions of people are trying to find a workable solution to protect themselves and their families and to avoid drinking contaminated water.
A reverse osmosis water system is sometimes touted as a possible solution on both a domestic and municipal level. After all, it
Posted by: TyentUSA On February 1, 2018 12:00 pm
According to this report published in January by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), 173 million people – around half of all Americans – have been exposed to radiation in their drinking water. That means an increase in the possibility of developing certain types of cancer and can also have a detrimental effect on fetal development.
By studying 50,000 water systems countrywide, the EWG found that millions of people across
Posted by: TyentUSA On January 18, 2018 12:00 pm
The latest trend that seems to be gathering attention in 2018 is the craze for drinking so-called “raw water.”
When a small, Oregan-based start-up company called Live Water started selling “pristine mountain spring water” to people in the San Francisco area, they tapped into the fashionable notion that the more “natural” something is, then the better for you it will be.
Raw water is, quite simply, water that springs
Posted by: TyentUSA On December 21, 2017 5:59 pm
There has never been running water here. Some of the dwindling number of residents, all of whom live in poverty, recall that there were wells up until around 30 years ago, where locals could draw water. Those wells are now dry or contaminated. People who live here have to make a seven-mile journey to buy water or depend on donations made to the local Baptist church.
Welcome to Sandbranch, just 14 miles southeast of Dallas, the fifth wealthiest city
Posted by: TyentUSA On October 24, 2017 7:00 am
Thousands of people every year are affected by breast cancer, either directly or indirectly. According to the Cancer Statistics Center, 255,180 new cases are anticipated during 2017, which are projected to result in some 41,070 deaths from breast cancer across America before the year is out.
Despite these statistics, deaths from breast cancer have been decreasing since 1989, largely due to better detection rates through screening, …
Posted by: TyentUSA On October 19, 2017 12:00 pm
We recently looked at the plastics that we unknowingly drink when we crack open a fresh bottle of water or turn on the tap. America is the world leader in plastic fiber contamination, with a horrifying 94% of nationwide samples testing positive. India and Lebanon are the closest runners-up; but for now, the dubious honor of topping the plastic fiber contamination table belongs to us.
Plastic fibers …
Posted by: TyentUSA On October 16, 2017 5:51 pm
Yet another unpalatable fact about America’s drinking water emerged upon publication of a report into the presence of microscopic plastic fibers in an astonishing 94 percent of samples tested.
It’s not just America that is swallowing untold quantities of plastics from industry, homes and manufacturing; around 80 percent of samples worldwide tested positive. If it’s in our water, then it’s in our food. If it’s our food, …
Posted by: TyentUSA On August 10, 2017 12:00 pm
We learned a little more this week about how lead ended up flowing out the taps in Flint. Researchers at the University of Michigan have released their forensic conclusions on how the crisis took shape.
Officials had put forward a claim that failure to add anti-corrosion chemicals hadn’t impacted on the eventual contamination of the water. This assertion was undermined by the researchers’ …
