EarthTalk - Why haven’t the governments of the world come together to ban or limit the production of plastics?

Dear EarthTalk:

Why haven’t the governments of the world come together to ban or limit the production of plastics globally like they’ve done to reduce ozone depleting chemicals in the 1980s and greenhouse gasses more recently?

Peter B., Wallingford, CT

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Eads High School Knowledge Bowl team places second at Manzanola

The Eads High School Knowledge Bowl team had a successful outing at the Manzanola competition.  The varsity team of Maggie Haase, Brenden Reifschneider, and Breanna Wilson finished in second place.

The team had a decent written-round score, then followed that with a good score in the first oral round and a meet-high 17 points in the second oral round.  

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Green jobs are booming, but too few employees have sustainability skills to fill them

To meet today’s global sustainability challenges, the corporate world needs more than a few chief sustainability officers – it needs an army of employees, in all areas of business, thinking about sustainability in their decisions every day.

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