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Zoë Schlanger
@zoeschlanger
Environment reporter. Into chemicals, climate, cool plants. Writing THE LIGHT EATERS, a plant book, for @harperbooks. • zoeschlanger at gmail dot com
Aug 24, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
And I also wrote this, to add a few crucial caveats to the Denmark study that this whole "cotton tote is worse than plastic bag" concept is based on qz.com/1591677/walmar… first of all, the Denmark study assumed *two organic cotton totes* would be needed to replace one plastic bag, because the ones the researchers found in Denmark were generally smaller
Nov 4, 2019 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Morning, today I published a story on the insane fact that only 9% of all plastic produced gets recycled, and the vast majority of single-use plastic in our lives *cannot* be recycled, despite what 40 years of messaging might have you believe qz.com/1738706/the-fu… Let's start with ants. Yes, ants! They're useful for figuring out how widespread a contaminant is, because they're *everywhere.* Scientists tried to find ants that didn't have plastic additives embedded in their skin. They...couldn't. Not even in the most remote places on Earth.
Jul 2, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Hi all, we wrote about the mental health crisis at US Customs & Border Protection. Context: There are 328 ports of entry in the US. Most border officers sign up to work at very different places than the southern border. Think sleepy port town on the Canadian border, for example. There is an extreme border agent shortage. Now officers from other ports are being forced to relocate to the southern border. They leave their families behind with a few days' notice, or they lose their jobs. They arrive to work mandatory double shifts in the concentration camps.