How Plastic We've Become

[Yo Mama]

In the 1967 film classic The Graduate, a businessman corners Benjamin Braddock at a cocktail party and gives him a bit of career advice. "Just one word…plastics."

Although Benjamin didn't heed that recommendation, plenty of other young graduates did. Today, the planet is awash in products spawned by the plastics industry. Residues of plastics have become ubiquitous in the environment—and in our bodies.

A federal government study now reports that bisphenol A (BPA)—the building block of one of the most widely used plastics—laces the bodies of the vast majority of U.S. residents young and old.

Story continues: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080223/food.asp

This is not surprising to me, but it is frightening. Could all this plastic be the cause of many cancers?

Will the US do anything about it voluntarily?

[Boondock]

plastic is everywhere.....look around you and see how much is there...kinda spooky

[Boondock]

GN, have you just sat there and taken a look around your living room? there is a shit ton of plastic just chilling everywhere.

i don't think people realize how much is around

[Yo Mama]

There's a chapter in the book I'm reading, The World Without Us that talks about how much plastic is in the oceans, just breaking into smaller and smaller pieces and never biodegrading. the Great Pacific Gyre isn't the only floating trash island in our world's oceans.

I've been having a serious consumer guilt trip since I started reading this book.