Links tagged “plastic bag”
- Plastic shopping bags may be going the way of lead paint and other banned products
'Plastic shopping bags, a staple of the U.S. retail experience for a half-century, may be going the way of lead paint and other banned products.
Los Angeles, the second most-populous U.S. city, yesterday became the largest American metropolis to curb use of the ubiquitous bags out of concern that they clog waterways, kill marine life and litter public places. An alderman in Chicago has introduced a similar measure, and a councilman in New York said he plans to follow suit...Officials in all three cities say their goal is a coast-to-coast ban on the bags'Flashback: Are we drowning in reusable grocery bags? ‘A cotton bag has to be used 131 times to equal environmental impact of producing one plastic bag’ -- 'Are shoppers using the bags enough to make them worthwhile? The UK Environment Agency recently concluded that a cotton bag has to be used 131 times to equal the environmental impact of producing one plastic bag'
Reverse the Bag Ban — ‘Plastic Bags are Green, Safe, Biodegradable and Economical’
Back to plastic? Reusable ‘eco-friendly’ grocery bags may cause food poisoning -- 'Swab-testing finds unacceptably high levels of bacterial, yeast, mold and coliform'
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Landmark Danish study finds no significant effect for facemask wearers
The ‘Danmask-19 trial’ was conducted in the spring with over 6,000 participants, when the public were not being told to wear masks but other public health measures were in place. Unlike other studies looking at masks, the Danmask study was a randomised controlled trial – making it the highest quality scientific evidence. ...
In the end, there was no statistically significant difference between those who wore masks and those who did not when it came to being infected by Covid-19. 1.8 per cent of those wearing masks caught Covid, compared to 2.1 per cent of the control group. As a result, it seems that any effect masks have on preventing the spread of the disease in the community is small. ...
The results of the Danmask-19 trial mirror other reviews into influenza-like illnesses. Nine other trials looking at the efficacy of masks (two looking at healthcare workers and seven at community transmission) have found that masks make little or no difference to whether you get influenza or not.
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‘Sinking’ Maldives Clear Forests, Pave Beaches, To Construct Four New Airports For Future Tourism
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Stay fat if you care about ‘global warming’?! Losing weight releases carbon dioxide – ‘To lose 100 grams of fat, you have to exhale 280 grams of CO2’
"Fat is converted to carbon dioxide and water. You exhale the carbon dioxide and the water mixes into your circulation until it’s lost as urine or sweat."
"If you lose 10kg of fat, precisely 8.4kg comes out through your lungs and the remaining 1.6kg turns into water. In other words, nearly all the weight we lose is exhaled.""To lose 100 grams of fat, you have to exhale 280 grams of carbon dioxide on top of what you’ll produce by vaporizing all your food, no matter what it is."
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No, Climate Change Is Not Eliminating Thanksgiving Cranberry Sauce
