CEAC is impressed with the honesty of this scientist
Matthew Shribman who follows the same path of other
researchers who have uncovered the truth about the
widespread epidemic now surfacing about ‘micro-plastics’
now found everywhere in our global environment and food
chain and CEAC solidly add our support and discussion to
this article.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC2002/S00023/were-breathing-plastic-visiting-uk-scientist-warns.htm
“We’re
breathing plastic” – visiting UK scientist
warns
Tuesday, 11 February 2020, 9:20 am
Press
Release: Matthew
Shribman
11 February
2020
QUOTE;
Scientist Matthew Shribman is
coming to New Zealand to spread his warning about
humanity’s addiction to
plastic
.
Visiting science
communicator Matthew
Shribman has a stark warning for humanity: we are
now breathing in plastic.
The renowned
scientist arrives in New Zealand this Thursday (13th
February) for four days to see family and speak with
media.
Shribman’s visit comes off the
back of his new documentary, Plastic
in the Air, which was released online on January
20th.
The 14-minute documentary was filmed over
a week-long sail between the UK and Denmark and documents
the rising threat of microplastics in the ocean and the air
we breathe.
Miniscule fragments of plastic,
called nanoplastics, are so fine that they’re in the air
we breathe. Once inhaled, these pieces of plastic can enter
the human bloodstream.
The documentary dispels
common myths about plastic, including the idea that plastic
can be easily recycled, or simply removed from the
ocean.
“The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is
not a floating island of waste that can easily be cleaned up
— that’s a myth,” Shribman
says.
“It’s a colossal area full of tiny
fragments of plastic, which are incredibly difficult to
remove without harming ocean life such as plankton and
algae. To make matters worse, most plastic sinks and is
totally inaccessible.
Recycling isn’t the
panacea most people think it is either, because plastic can
only be recycled roughly 10 times, and a huge portion of
waste put in recycling bins actually ends up in
landfill.
“We’ve been sold a story that
recycling is enough, and it’s a lie. Recycling plastic is
like trying to heal a fatal wound by drinking the blood with
a straw. We need to stop the plastic at the source before it
destroys the natural world we depend upon for our survival.
”
UNQUOTE;
Firstly CEAC appreciate
Scientist Matthew Shribman is coming to New Zealand to
spread his warning about humanity’s addiction to
plastic.
We wish to add our position on
micro-plastics proliferation through our research, of other
sources of micro-plastics that we have very serious concerns
about, since finding that Global Governments have yet to
take action about these ‘other micro-plastics’ not
spoken of yet,- and their threat to humanity
also.
- CEAC would welcome some of our Government
MP’s may meet with this scientist this week and learn of
this important issue first hand we hope? - CEAC has
bought this “micro-plastics” issue up in press releases
before regarding the ‘truck tyre dust’ emissions issue
when we use road transport over rail.
CEAC has
long said; “Rail has no tyres only steel wheels on
a steel track- whereas one truck can use up to 32
tyres”.
Considering with
each one way trip, emitting up to 9 kgs of tyre dust during
a trip from Wellington to Auckland, – we need to reduce
truck freight to increase rail freight.
Please review
the Ministry of Transport’s own figures of truck tyre dust
emissions from each truck tyre – to find the real
truth.
Emission
Factors for Contaminants Released by Motor Vehicles in New
Zealand [PDF, 3.3
With rail we have no serious
‘climate change transport emissions to deal
with’.
Also – “the elephant in the room now is
tyre ‘micro-plastic’ emissions”.
See our CEAC
press release on Scoop in 2019; https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1912/S00168/ceac-climate-change-issues-for-rail-transport-plans.htm
QUOTE;
Tyre
dust pollution is now globally considered as a
‘micro-plastics pandemic’, and is seen as the worst
enemy causing climate change in the articles
below.
These two documents below provide the evidence
to show about “road dust from tyres is an overlooked
pollutant of our environment and waterways.
Tyre dust is
micro-plastics.
https://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/277na4_en.pdf
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es400871j
•
If the world is to limit the effects of global warming,
drastic changes must be made and the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) report https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
Executive Summary.
• All must be taken seriously now
along with; “Comparison of Tire and Road Wear Particle
Concentrations in Sediment for Watersheds in France, Japan,
and the United States by Quantitative Pyrolysis GC/MS
Analysis” report on sediments for watersheds.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es400871j
QUOTE:
“Comparison of Tire and Road Wear Particle
Concentrations in Sediment for Watersheds in France, Japan,
and the United States by Quantitative Pyrolysis GC/MS
Analysis
Unquote;
So less ‘transport
micro-plastic dust’ is considered as a major plus – and
only ‘steel wheels on a steel track’ will do the job to
deal with Climate change.
So if we lower the
micro-plastics and climate change emissions in our
environment we will make our lives and environment healthy
again.
So we advocate that our Government use the $6.8
Billion dollars to restore rail again to become the ‘prime
mover of NZ’s freight and passenger service
again.
UNQUOTE;
CEAC say’s; – This issue must
include; https://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/277na4_en.pdf
According
to the European Commission Environmental Integration
Research the road dust (tyre dust) evidence is confirmed
under the heading “Road dust; an overlooked pollutant.”
Unsustainable high use of 90% truck freight carried must be
lowered and rail encouraged to balance land transport use to
lower these Greenhouse gas emissions for a more sustainable
land transport in future. Micro-plastics from truck tyre
dust would also be reduced while restoring water quality and
lowering climate change.
IMPORTANT TO
CONSIDER;
We must also stop the discharge of those
tyre dust micro-plastics ‘road runoff’ into our coastal
estuaries as this allows the microplastics to be carried by
tidal/current flows to our polar ice shelves and snowfields
which will increase snow and ice melting as a team of German
scientists two weeks ago discovered tyre particulates have
been discovered ice the polar snow and icecaps. https://phys.org/news/2017-02-tiny-plastic-particles-tyres-clogging.html
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/app.45701
(QUOTE)
“According to the Rubber Manufacturers Association,
each tire produced takes 7 gallons of oil”
https://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/277na4_en.pdf
According
to the European Commission Environmental Integration
Research the road dust (tyre dust) evidence is confirmed
under the heading “Road dust; an overlooked
pollutant.”
Many scientific studies have
linked particulate air pollution to daily death rates in
cities.
These two documents provide the evidence
to show about “road dust from tyres is an overlooked
pollutant of our waterways.
Tyre dust is
micro-plastics.
Clearly climate change is here. –
Government must act now.
We welcome our
Government asking Scientist Matthew
Shribman to a meeting with them while in New Zealand to hear
his valid warning about humanity’s addiction to plastic,
and learn how best we can tackle the issue for our future
generations.
