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Plastics and Water Quality
A focus for 2008



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Why focus on plastics?

  • Plastic is inexpensive to manufacture, lightweight, durable, and strong. But, convenience comes with a price... too much being produced and too much being discarded.  The durability comes with a high price too. Plastics linger in the environment because they require high energy to photo degrade.  
  • On a daily basis we are faced with questions about plastics:  Should I put my Nalgene bottle in the dishwasher?  Should I microwave my lunch in a plastic container.  Should I buy bottled water? 

Links to related resources

ReSources for Sustainable Communities

Plastics and the Marine Environment PTMSC

Washington State Beyond Waste Program

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"Safety Dance Over Plastics"
Scientific American, September 2008
WSU professor Patricia Hunt, releases her work on BPA, bisphenol-A plastics found in compact discs, eye glasses and baby bottles.  "A geneticist by training, she discovered that bisphenol-a (BPA) an estrogen mimic, was leaching from polycarbonate plastics, which harmed her lab mice and ruined her experiments."
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