A Grist post on plastic pickers really got me this morning. Here’s the set up and helps answer, ‘who are plastic pickers?’ an estimated 20 million people make a living by collecting discarded plastic, aluminum, and other refuse from dumpsites and landfills and selling it to recyclers. They’re called “waste pickers,” and though their work is essential…
While reading a recent new book, Enlightenment Now, I now read with renewed skepticism and critical analysis of their assumptions, arguments and conclusions (inferences). Enlightenment Now will resurface on Kestrel once completed, but it already has altered my thinking patterns some. With that background, a recent article in Grist on world food insecurity deserves mention…
The Institute of Bank America published a great short piece on plastic and its circular economy. A strange place for good plastic research and needed investments. I found it well worth the read. There were two key points that I found important. First, a circular economy for any product cycle is heavily dependent on the…
I was struck the other day by a perceived pivot in my mental model vis-a-vis my positioning to the world. Growing up during teenage and college years, I was heavily influenced by Laurel Canyon music. No better song captures the optimism within the class / social / cultural struggle of their times than Graham Nash’s…
One of my favorite places for data, Statista.com, just published a piece on the growth of plastic waste. Their projections are scarier than historical. How did we get here? You will find more infographics at Statista What does it look like going forward? In just two decades, the global annual production of plastic waste has…
