Environmental Issues
(This article is extracted from the EU funded Sea Change Project. Links below. Illustration by Marker Wizards Ltd.) Many of our waste products end up in the sea. This includes visible litter as well as invisible waste such as chemicals … Read More
I recently spent a day watching magnificent Finn Whales off the coast of West Cork with Colin Barnes, ‘Cork Whale Watch’. What a privilege it was to be in the company of these giants, being the second largest animal on … Read More
RTP have opened a new Plastic Factory in Wroclaw, Poland. From their own website, it was announced as follows in February 2018 : “The 8,000 square metre facility, located at Prologis Park V in Wroclaw, has a wide dock area … Read More
What is so interesting about this head line is that it comes from an article in the Irish Times dated Thursday April 7th 2005. A disturbing account of the health hazards of living in the close vicinity of a Plastics … Read More
I’ve been fishing debris out of the river for several years. I began picking up floating trash to make the scenery more appealing to myself and other patrons of Speed River Paddling, a local Guelph kayak/canoe rental company. They used … Read More
Cadmium. How much is too much? Any. Zero cadmium is good for you. Any more than that is bad for you. Really bad. What is Cadmium? Cadmium is a soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white divalent metal. It is similar in many respects to zinc but … Read More
The above image shows the point of outflow from the waste water treatment plant into the Ilen When an industry (as opposed to residential) discharges to the waste water treatment plant, there are often requirements to licence directly by the … Read More
The pre production polymer pellets or Nurdles get spilled in production, in road transport and in shipping. Each bulk truck can carry about 2 billion nurdles per load. This is such a big problem that the industry itself has an … Read More
The planning application for the Daly Product Polymer Compounding Factory has had no report compiled on it except those that were commissioned on behalf of RTP/Daly Products as part of their submission. No independent study was commissioned on the impact … Read More
