Author Archives: Peter Lowes

I’m an Environmental Scientist, and I Don’t Care If You Recycle

Here is what you can do instead… Written by: Ono Mergen on Medium.com I’m sure I’m not the first person to tell you that the world’s plastic problem is at a critical level today. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age to the Steel Age, we delineate society’s epochs by their primary material for […]

John Oliver breaks down the big, terrible lie at the heart of plastic recycling

If you were thinking plastic recycling was as straightforward as popping your empty bottles in the right container, John Oliver has some bad news for you. For the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, the host takes a deep dive into the world of plastics, from skyrocketing production to the terrifyingly-large portion of plastic that […]