Forget the Heroics, Just Pick Up the Trash
Recycling programs should make sense and be boring.
Recycling: Wasting Your Time & Your Money
Spending scarce resources on a separate collection system for material no one wants isn’t sensible.
Plastic Straw Ban: Humorous Memes
Online jokes about plastic straws provide welcome comic relief.
Ocean Plastic: The 1% Solution vs the 55% Solution
If we want to protect the ocean from plastic, we need to think strategically.
Coercing Your Neighbour Over Plastic Straws
Green activists are in the business of taking away choices.
The Recycled Plastic Scandal
Green groups fantasize about a world in which everything is virtuously recycled. They’re prepared to use other nations as refuse heaps in pursuit of that fantasy.
Banning Plastic Straws, Harming Real People
Causing real harm with no realistic chance of improving the world makes no sense.
From Carbon Footprint to Plastic Footprint
Polluted waterways are one more reason not to litter. Rather than making this point, greens are demonizing plastic.
Greens Are Pivoting, Plastic is Their New Obsession
Politicians & 10-year-olds think banning drinking straws in rich nations will address improper garbage disposal in poor ones.
How Much Plastic is Polluting the Ocean?
Peer-reviewed studies, published six months apart, produce wildly different estimates.