"South Carolina officials are urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to extend Superfund status to farmland around the shuttered Galey & Lord textile mill, citing widespread contamination from industrial sludge once promoted as fertilizer.
The sludge, spread between 1993 and 2013 on more than 300 fields, contains PFAS, which are linked to cancer and other health problems; in some areas, contamination exceeds EPA safety limits by hundreds or thousands of times."
Friends of mine sailed across the Pacific from Venezuela to Micronesia, enroute they were becalmed in the Intertropical Convergence zone around the equator, sometimes called "The Doldrums", they were woken in the night with tapping and scratching sounds from the hull of the yacht.
They were becalmed in the South Pacific Gyre, a rubbish patch one and a half times the size of Texas, about a million square miles!
Ah, Guy, there's nothing like the smell of burning plastic in the morning, almost better than napalm. Let's also remember that plastics are the products of petroleum distillates and we burn 100 million barrels of oil PER DAY worldwide, 13.3 million in the US. Here in Marietta, Ohio, the Ohio river is lined with distilleries cracking oil into plastic components and the economy has been based on fossil fuel extraction and distillation for many generations. It's "in our blood", no, really, in our blood. One of my neighbors was burning plastic a few feet from my upstairs bedroom window and the AC fan pumped it right into my BR. Mmmmm good! It's a acquired aroma, and I gave-up and called my landlord for relief, which, thank god, succeeded. Thanks for this article and all you do!
But wait, there's more, always more.
"South Carolina officials are urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to extend Superfund status to farmland around the shuttered Galey & Lord textile mill, citing widespread contamination from industrial sludge once promoted as fertilizer.
The sludge, spread between 1993 and 2013 on more than 300 fields, contains PFAS, which are linked to cancer and other health problems; in some areas, contamination exceeds EPA safety limits by hundreds or thousands of times."
https://www.ehn.org/tainted-fertilizer-spread-across-10000-acres-may-trigger-first-superfund-designation-for-farmland?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ3m49leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE1WlFoRUdkOFdpZWpUc0lIAR6AFMFsaFl1vF9rcH05EtT9bn54Cd8UbOrpmjg7Lsz_IJUuPw1cELhJZhNLPw_aem_f032LktaNBR7ruM62sKlRg
Wait, what? It’s worse than we thought? I never thought I’d see those words from you, Kevin. 😳
Friends of mine sailed across the Pacific from Venezuela to Micronesia, enroute they were becalmed in the Intertropical Convergence zone around the equator, sometimes called "The Doldrums", they were woken in the night with tapping and scratching sounds from the hull of the yacht.
They were becalmed in the South Pacific Gyre, a rubbish patch one and a half times the size of Texas, about a million square miles!
https://weather.com/science/environment/news/garbage-patch-south-pacific-ocean-discovery-plastic-microplastic-pollution
Let's not forget that the late great George Carlin was equally scathing on plastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rld0KDcan_w
Those “Doldrums” are a disaster. What a story, Kevin.
Thank you for your collegiality. I greatly appreciate your efforts to share, like, and contribute to my work.
It appears the only way out is extinction (aka) collective suicide.I wish i could be more cheery but then i would have to lie.
I suspect most informed people would prefer more cheerfulness. Lying is not a preferred path, though.
Ah, Guy, there's nothing like the smell of burning plastic in the morning, almost better than napalm. Let's also remember that plastics are the products of petroleum distillates and we burn 100 million barrels of oil PER DAY worldwide, 13.3 million in the US. Here in Marietta, Ohio, the Ohio river is lined with distilleries cracking oil into plastic components and the economy has been based on fossil fuel extraction and distillation for many generations. It's "in our blood", no, really, in our blood. One of my neighbors was burning plastic a few feet from my upstairs bedroom window and the AC fan pumped it right into my BR. Mmmmm good! It's a acquired aroma, and I gave-up and called my landlord for relief, which, thank god, succeeded. Thanks for this article and all you do!
Thank you for the informed comment, Greeley. Need we burn more fossil fuels to maintain our economy? Is it worth it?
When I lived in Belize, the neighbors burned plastic, and nearly everything else, in their garbage. You’re correct: The aroma is undesirable!