Articles tagged with "plastic"

I appreciated the look at plastic detox ideas and highlighting other silly things, but felt like part of the main point of concern around micro plastics was missed.

Tiny microplastics are making big headlines. Are they a ticking time bomb for human health, or just another overblown environmental scare?

One of the fictions of the "naive-greens" and other "irrationalists" is that "chemicals" are bad while natural products (non-chemicals?) are good. When asked if water is a chemical, and hence evil, and whether cyanide, nicotine or the botulism toxin, are natural and hence benign they change the subject. You might think that our classrooms are immune to such nonsense; in the November issue of Chemistry in New Zealand, Ian Millar of Carina Chemical Laboratories Ltd tells us we are wrong.

A fire that recently burned a marquee at a Christian camp "inexplicably" died because of the plastic roof — not a miracle of God.