Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for October 16, 2024

Sigh. All the neighborhoods.

Do you have to complain about every LITTLE thing?

The expressions are spot on hilarious!

I’ve installed a filter on my water line in the basement, and use a Brita water jug as well … double protection. Once every 3 months I replace one in the basement … you would not believe the muddy condition it’s in. The filter in the jug seems to be good for 6 months, at least.

With all the microplastics that are reportedly in our systems and on our persons, one has to wonder if corpses will be essentially mummified without the actual process of mummification.

I’ve often wondered if a piece of plastic could be reduced to the atomic level and still remain plastic. Now, I know. Thanks, Dave Cloverly!!

Well! Aren’t the paramecium snooty all of a sudden!

The problem with plastics is not that they don’t break down. The problem with plastics is that they DO break down … into the toxic chemicals from which they were made.

Mitigation for the problems of waste, including plastics, forever chemicals, toxic substances, etc. is available in the form of Plasma Incineration. This process reduces waste products to their individual atoms, the resultant materials are a hydrocarbon gas that can be used for fuel and a glassy slag material that can be used for construction. It can generate net positive energy. There are a few operational plants now, building more takes money, but doing so could simultaneously solve waste and energy problems.

Sounds like a Sheryl Crow Song ! ;-)

Well thems is already inside y’all too.

His name is Arnold, Arnold Polymer.

Wouldn’t surprise me if there’s some plastic walmart bags blowing around Antarctica…

I thought the problem was microparticles added to toothpaste and other abrasives. It took me a while to realize that ALL plastics eventually break down into microplastics. That’s a lot of plastic. Microplastic has been detected in every bodily organ including the brain.

I remember that line from the 1967 movie “The Graduate”: “There’s a great future in plastics.”

We may have the distinction of being the first civilization to “plastic” ourselves to death.

Make the Petri Dish Great Again.

Who knew microorganisms had HOAs?

…and he doesn’t look happy!