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Category: Waste and pollution

Part of a world map, centred on Australia and extending west to Iran, north to Japan, and east to New Zealand. I has hundreds, a thousand or more green arrows moving across all the oceans. They are so concentrated around the shores of China that they make one green area.

When the ships stop, what then?

Isn’t it stunning? This is the current position of all the cargo vessels in the world. Just cargo vessels – I’ve set the filter to remove the passenger ships, the tankers, the fishing vessels, all the other types of sea traffic. How do we prepare for when those ships stop, or, if we are smarter than I think we collectively are, when they start using fuel that is clean and…

A double handful of little bits of plastic, including bread tag, soy sauch pouch, packaging, and stickers.

Plastic in the Soil

One day, our grandchildren will be cursing us for the microplastic s in their eggs and vegetables, in the same way way and just as vehemently as we curse our grandparents for the lead. And just like them, we, know, but we don’t want to know.

Our Chooks know it’s Sunday

One of the very pleasant surprises of living in suburbia is just how abundant sources of organic matter for turning into soil are. One of the very pleasant surprises of living in suburbia is just how abundant sources of organic matter for turning into soil are. Maybe that will change as the need for food security accelerates, but for the moment, nobody else seems to be chasing kitchen scraps, greengrocer…

Lead in the soil?

Lead paint was commonly used up till the late 1970’s. Up until 1965 paint was often 50% lead. Houses, and sheds dating from before that often had a history of being scraped and sanded and repainted, and the lead paint flakes and dust settled as a ring around the building.