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Quote:Theresa May will this week urge Commonwealth leaders to join together to tackle the scourge of discarded plastic in the world’s oceans, as she announces £60 million-worth of funding to develop new ways to address the problem.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04...ic-worlds/
Oh well, even if they collect all the plastic in the ocean what are they going to do with it? Pile it on the mountain untill it drops back to the ocean?
Maybe they could burn the plastic with filters on the chimneys?
Or they could use this bacteria that eats plastic?
Quote:Scientists Have Accidentally Created a Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Waste
They found the first ones in Japan. Hidden in the soil at a plastics recycling plant, researchers unearthed a microbe that had evolved to eat the soda bottles dominating its habitat, after you and I throw them away.
That discovery was announced in 2016, and scientists have now gone one better. While examining how the Japanese bug breaks down plastic, they accidentally created a mutant enzyme that outperforms the natural bacteria, and further tweaks could offer a vital solution to humanity's colossal plastics problem.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-...-pollution
But that doesn't seem to be comming any time soon and it is a news that keeps on returning (bug that eats plastic).
In the meantime UK to become first country to ban plastic straws
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environ...tic-straws
and
Quote:UK goes 55 hours without burning any coal
Power plants in the United Kingdom stopped burning coal for 55 hours this week, besting the previous record of about 40 hours.
Bloomberg reported Thursday that power plants in the U.K. stopped using coal to generate electricity between 10:25 p.m. London time on Monday until 5:10 a.m. on Thursday.
To compensate, wind turbines generated more electricity, according to Bloomberg.
The U.K. has already given renewable energy sources priority access to its power grid and plans to completely end its use of coal power plants in 2025.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environ...using-coal
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
