The Green Party is the first in Parliament to put a price on water. They want bottling companies to pay 10c per litre they take to sell. The tax would apply to both domestic sellers and exporters. All revenue created from the policy will be divided equally between local councils […]
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Foreign firm allowed to bottle millions of litres of water a day from Christchurch aquifers CHARLIE MITCHELL , documents show. The Belfast plant would be the second-largest water-bottling operation in the country in terms of allocated usage. It comes amid political pressure over the lightly-regulated water-bottling industry, which allows companies […]
With all the bad news (as usual) being featured in the mainstream news about ocean pollution, all in the name of Climate Change scaremongering, it’s good to know about something that, if it lives up to it’s promise, is positively wonderful: The Ocean Cleanup! Trash accumulates in 5 ocean garbage […]
Published on May 16, 2017 May 16, 2017: Unusual ‘energy waves’ are appearing on seismograms simultaneously at the North & South Poles. These patterns resemble nothing of the norm as defined at IRIS.edu. Another strange signal was detected on MIMIC just prior to these showing up. The MIMIC signal spanned […]
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-caterpillar-bags-biodegradable-solution-plastic.html Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting biodegradable solution to plastic pollution April 24, 2017 Scientists have found that a caterpillar commercially bred for fishing bait has the ability to biodegrade polyethylene: one of the toughest and most used plastics, frequently found clogging up landfill sites in the form […]
There have been rumblings regarding some sort of nuclear incident—or possibly incidents—in the Arctic over the last month. Multiple reports, some of them from official monitoring organizations, have reported iodine 131—a radioactive isotope often associated with nuclear fission—has been detected via air sampling stations throughout the region. The first detection […]