CALIFORNIA : VERY LITTLE PLASTIC BEING RECYLCLED

LA TIMES - Environment : VERY LITTLE PLASTIC BEING RECYCLED IN CALIFORNIA 

Excerpt:  Polypropylene, labeled as #5 on packaging, is used for yogurt containers, margarine tubs and microwavable trays. Only 2% of it is getting recycled. Colored shampoo and detergent bottles, made from polyethylene, or #1 plastic, are getting recycled at a rate of just 5%.

Other plastics, including ones promoted as highly recyclable, such as clear polyethylene bottles, which hold some medications, or hard water bottles, are being recycled at just 16%.

No plastic in the report exceeds a recycling rate of 23%, with the majority reported in just the single digits.

READ ON MY FRIENDS!  

DO YOU KNOW WHICH PLASTIC CONTAINERS ARE SAFE TO REUSE TO STORE OR COOK FOODS?

DOLPHINS SWIMMING FRANTICALLY - ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA OIL SPILL

LA TIMES MAJOR OIL SPILL CLOSES ORANGE COUNTY BEACHES PHOTOS 

by two Photojournalists, Allen J. Schaben and Myung Chun, this article come out after the paper edition reported "A Surf Session In One Word : Surreal" which said dolphins were swimming frantically.

Here is the report by surfer Joe Mozingo : LA TIMES SURFING THE ORANGE COUNTY OIL SPILL

With all the wonders of technology, it amazes me that we still have to contend with the possibilities of ecological damaging oil spills.

EPA NEEDS TO ACT FAST! AS MANY AS 500,000 CORRODING BARRELS OF CARCINOGEN DUMPED IN PACIFIC

LA TIMES - EPA NEEDS TO ACT FAST - DDT BARRELS OFF CATALINA - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA  By the LA Times Editorial Board from March 22, 2021

EXCERPTS:  On a clear day, looking south from Rancho Palos Verdes' Point Vicente Lighthouse across the San Pedro Channel to Catalina Island offers a stunning postcard-worthy vista of coastline, sparkling blue water and the busy comings-and-goings from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

What you can't see is what lies below the water: as many as 500,000 corroding barrels of DDT, and extremely effective insecticide the U.S. government banned in 1972 because it caused long-term damage to the environment and wildlife - and because it was a probably human carcinogen.

...  If you look out from Point Vicente for the next few weeks, you may see the research vessel Sally Ride mixed among the ships and boats plying the channel.  Those aboard include 31 scientists and crew members who are mapping 50,000 acres if seafloor to try to catalogue the scope of the DDT barrel graveyard, a critical early step in trying to figure out the best way to deal with the barrels and chemical seepage.

SALMON and RIVERENE FISH - DAM DEMOLITIONS LEADS TO NATURAL HABITATS

LA TIMES : LARGE DAMS TO BE DEMOLISH - A VICTORY FOR FISH 

Excerpt: If it goes forward, the deal would revive plants to remove four massive hydroelectric dams on the lower Klamath River, emptying giant reservoirs and reopening potential fish habitation that's been blocked for more than a century.  The massive project would be at the vanguard of a trend toward dam demotions in the U.S. as the structures age and become less economically viable amid growing environmental concerns about the health of native fish.

WHAT IS RECYCLEABLE?

SEA OTTERS : CHARLIE THE OLDEST LIVED TO 22 IN CAPTIVITY

LA TIMES : CHARLIE, OLDEST SEA OTTER IN CAPTIVITY DIES AT 22   By Jaclyn Cosgrove

Charlie was rescued during an El Nino year as a pup and lived out his life at the Aquarium of the Pacific, where he participated in science experiments.