UNTANGLING PLASTICS Book Reviewed: Untangling Plastics: The Missing Link in Mitigating Climate Change Author: Bob GedertReviewed By: Arley Owens Bob Gedert’s “Untangling Plastics” is more than a book—it is a wake-up call to humanity. It is a powerful, urgent, and deeply alarming examination of one of the greatest environmental threats facing our planet today. Through
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FRACKING IMPACTS ON HUMANS The primary sources of plastic production is the fracking of natural gas or the refinement of oil in the United States. In 2020, more than 500,000 fracking wells were drilled in the United States, according to the USEPA. Hydraulic fracking wells utilize large quantities of water, chemicals, and sandblast into impermeable
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“It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.” —R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I had two childhood heroes during my formative years, both shaping my personality and drive to make a difference. First, my grandfather taught me the
Excerpts from Untangling Plastics Most people consider plastic consumer items or packaging as beneficial and generally inert or innocuous—not harmful. Yet the plastic products in our household are made from hundreds of chemicals originating from petrochemical factories that also produce oil and gas products. The very companies that are directly impacting the warming of Earth
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Excerpts from Chapter 2, Untangling Plastics The first written use of the term plastic seems to have been in the 1630s. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, plastic is an adjective meaning “capable of shaping or molding a mass of matter,” from Latin plasticus, from Greek plastikos, “fit for molding, capable of being molded into
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Excerpts from Chapter 1, Untangling Plastics What does the chasing arrow symbol with a number in the center mean on specific plastic packages and products? Prior to plastic product coding, the chasing arrow symbol was first used in the 1920s to inform the public that paper products were recyclable. Over the decades, recycling chasing arrows
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