Yes, Biden is right. The presidency SHOULD stand for something. But it doesn't.

the plastics industry has proposed a solution
it is called "advanced recycling"
otherwise known as pyrolysis

“They heat plastics in an absence of oxygen, they keep heating them until they melt, they turn into little gas vapors and are cooled down in a liquid feedstock that becomes the feedstock for new plastics and chemicals again,”

quoted by an industry insider

the problem is many-fold ..

Since last week we have had 5 days of rain/showers and two cloudy days. The suburban garden is looking great and well watered. Got my water bill today and it is the lowest I've seen in years. Go figure.

The Russia sanctions are almost funny. The EU's oil embargo means buying Russian oil refined in India and/or marketed through other countries. Last week I suggested we don't need grain, this week I want to explore the many ways we can work around the current system...how we make do with what we have. But what about fertilizer...we'll starve! Think about it... chemical fertilizers didn't exist until 1900 or so, and nitrogen synthesis wasn't even invented until WWII. This absurd senseless war could be an opportunity for US citizens to become self reliant.

Don Grooms life celebration concert, and his song "Use it up wear it out, make it do or do without".

Housing represents about a third of the basket of goods and services that the BLS uses to track inflation in the Consumer Price Index, the largest component. This is very bad.