Grass Roots Health

Every day, each American generates about 5 lbs. of trash. The rest of the world averages about 1.8 lbs. of trash per person each day. Why the huge difference? According to research, about 76% of Americans throw their recyclables in the trash. How can we increase recycling? For example, we know that plastic waste does not break down in the environment for hundreds of years. Even then, it breaks down to microplastics and nanoplastics.  As a past guest said on this podcast, “This generation is discovering the problems. The next generations must solve them.” Very true! Listen as host Tim Jordan explores these issues and others with his special guest, Jeff Snyder, Senior Vice President, Recycling & Sustainability, Rumpke Waste and Recycling.   

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Resources for This Podcast:

Website: Rumpke.  https://www.rumpke.com/

Article: (2024). Rumpke opens the largest, most technically advanced recycling facility in North America. https://www.rumpke.com/about-us/service-areas/oh/franklin-county/columbus/recycling-resource-center

Report: (2024). State of Recycling: The Present and Future of Residential Recycling in the U.S.  The Recycling Partnership: Solving for Circularity. https://recyclingpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Recycling-Partnership-State-of-Recycling-Report-1.9.23.pdf

Article: (2024). Kaufmann, L.  Americans Throw 76% of Their Recyclables Into the Trash. Bloomberg.  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-10/americans-trash-three-quarters-of-recyclables-study-finds?embedded-checkout=true&utm_source

Article: (2024). Plastics Recycling Global Markets Report 2023-2024 & 2029: An ESG Perspective, Competitive Intelligence, Emerging Technologies and Developments, Key Dynamics. Global Newswire. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/06/24/2902799/28124/en/Plastics-Recycling-Global-Markets-Report-2023-2024-2029-An-ESG-Perspective-Competitive-Intelligence-Emerging-Technologies-and-Developments-Key-Dynamics.

Article: (2024). Garcia, T.  TN lawmaker to propose bill aimed at reducing waste, adding jobs.  WSMV4. https://www.wsmv.com/2024/12/17/tn-lawmaker-propose-bill-aimed-reducing-waste-adding-jobs/?utm_source

Article (2019). Mismanaged waste ‘kills up to a million people a year globally.’ The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/14/mismanaged-waste-kills-up-to-a-million-people-a-year-globally

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Grass Roots Health is produced and hosted by Tim Jordan.

Artwork created by Priyanka Banerjee.   

Audio editing, mixing, and mastering by Suma Recording, Painesville, Ohio  https://www.sumarecording.com/

Website design by Alex Brinkman, Green Tree Media, Perrysburg, Ohio www.greentreemediallc.com

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Who is the “real” Donald Trump? What does the President of the United States have to do with the health of Americans? The identity of the President has everything to do with health! You see, one’s view of the world determines his/her investment in the health of Americans. The health of Americans has always been political.

Whether it is abruptly terminating international assistance in foreign aid, ending severe weather warnings, trying to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), decimating the National Park System, slashing existing grants at the National Institutes of Health on vaccine hesitancy, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and COVID-19 because these topics do not align with your priorities, cutting new grant funding, telling public health specialists what words they can say or write, slashing scientific research at universities, or cutting employees and grant funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ending programs and grants that are considered WOKE, recommending health related tariffs, having fewer Americans with health insurance, or making radical changes to Medicaid and Social Security, who the President is matters.   

Listen as host Tim Jordan interviews investigative reporter and author David Cay Johnston about Donald Trump.  David has known Donald Trump for 40 years!  He has written entire books about Trump and has never been proven wrong.  I encourage you to listen. 

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Resources for This Podcast:

Rochester Institute of Technology Website: (2025). www.rit.edu

David Cay Johnston’s Webpage at the Rochester Institute of Technology 

www.rit.edu/directory/dcjgla-david-cay-johnston

David Cay Johnston’s Books on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/stores/David-Cay-Johnston/author/B001KDG3PW?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=8d62bd08-1b69-4a7a-b971-e5463099fc47

Article: (2025). Johnston, D.C.  All the Damage Trump’s Tariffs are Doing. DC Report. (May 20, 2025.) https://www.dcreport.org/2025/04/08/all-the-damage-trumps-tariffs-are-doing/

Article: (2025). Rosenthal, E. How Trump aims to slash federal support for research, public health, and Medicaid. KFF Health News, (May 20, 2025). https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/health-care-spending-cuts-research-trump-administration-tariffs-public-health/

Article:  (2025). Hart, A. Housing, nutrition in peril as Trump pulls back Medicaid social services. CBS  News Health Watch (May 19, 2025).  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-medicaid-social-services-housing-nutrition/

Article: (2025). Parashar, S. Finally, India makes it official: Trump didn’t broker India-Pakistan cease fire.  The Times of India. (May 14, 2025). https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/finally-india-makes-it-official-trump-didnt-broker-india-pakistan-ceasefire/articleshow/121149120.cms

Article. (2025). President Trump’s First 100 Days: Attacks on Human Rights, Cruelty, and Chaos. Amnesty International News (April 30, 2025). https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/04/president-trumps-first-100-days-attacks-on-human-rights/

Podcast: (2025). The Osterholm Update. Dr. Mike Osterholm and CIDRAP.  https://open.spotify.com/show/0ymlroFYVlSAnoq0uqECGx?si=b14bd54d600c47bc

Podcast: (2025). Letters from An American. Dr. Heather Cox Richardson. https://open.spotify.com/show/2NAihO3xHMQr64EnvpvHDl?si=0b65fac270294aad

Podcast: (2025). The Meidas Touch. Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meisales.   https://open.spotify.com/show/34NcOzUEJs0T5DaUeYLfFl?si=0e2b4118de2b4c10

Article: Jordan, T.R. (2024). The Problem of Christian Nationalism. https://1795group.com/the-problem-of-christian-nationalism/

Article: Jordan, T.R. (2023). Lies Have Consequences. https://1795group.com/lies-have-consequences/

Article: Jordan, T.R. (2003). WOKE: Are You Awake?   https://1795group.com/are-you-awake/

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Grass Roots Health is produced and hosted by Tim Jordan.

David Cay Johnston was booked by Tim Jordan

Artwork created by Priyanka Banerjee.   

Audio editing, mixing, and mastering by Suma Recording, Painesville, Ohio  https://www.sumarecording.com/

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Should Christians care about refugees and immigrants?

Listen as Tim Jordan explores this question with his special guest.

You should know the differences between the words, “refugee” and “immigrant.” The key difference between a “refugee” and an “immigrant” lies in their reason for migration. “Refugees” are forced to flee their homes due to persecution, war, or violence. “Refugees” seek safety elsewhere, often seeking asylum or refugee status in another country. “Immigrants,” on the other hand, choose to move to another country for various reasons, including economic opportunities, family reunification, education, or to escape difficult living conditions.

Due process protections in the U.S. apply to all persons, both citizens and non-citizens, including individuals and corporations. This includes all human beings, regardless of their citizenship or immigration status. Even non-citizens are entitled to due process within the U.S., meaning they cannot be arbitrarily deprived of their rights. The Due Process Clause, found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, ensures that no person can be deprived of "life, liberty, or property" without due process of law.   

In the United States, children born on U.S. soil are automatically granted U.S. citizenship. This is a principle known as birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This means that the child becomes a U.S. citizen regardless of the parents' immigration status or the parents’ citizenship status. 

Resources for This Podcast: 

Webpage (2025). https://waterforishmael.org/

Facebook Page (2025). https://www.facebook.com/waterforishmael/

Webpage (2025). https://immigrationforum.org/

Webpage (2025). https://careustz.org/

Article (2025). Briceno, M., & Ramirez-Uribe, M. How falsehoods drove Trump’s immigration crackdown in his first 100 days.  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/29/how-falsehoods-drove-trumps-immigration-crackdown-in-his-first-100-days?

Article (2025). Trump’s First 100 Days: Creating an Imperial Presidency That Harms Americans. The Center for American Progress. 

Article (2024). Shiavenza, M. & Panress A. Deep Dive: The Great Replacement Theory. Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. https://hias.org/news/deep-dive-great-replacement-theory?

Article (2023). Jordan, T.R. The Problem of Human Migration.   https://1795group.com/the-problem-of-human-migration/

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Grass Roots Health is produced and hosted by Tim Jordan. 

Artwork created by Priyanka Banerjee.   

Audio editing, mixing, and mastering by Suma Recording, Painesville, Ohio   https://www.sumarecording.com/

Website design by Alex Brinkman, Green Tree Media, Perrysburg, Ohio www.greentreemediallc.com

Forthcoming 

I first heard about Dr. Mike Osterholm in March 2020 while on spring break in the Phoenix, AZ area for spring training baseball. After attending a spring training game or two, my son-in-law informed me that baseball was canceled for the year. Initially, I thought he was joking, but he was not. The 2020 preseason and regular season baseball were canceled for all fans.  

That night, we drove approximately 45 minutes to meet some relatives from Tucson, AZ at a restaurant halfway between where we were staying and where they lived. On the way there, my son-in-law asked if I wanted to listen to Dr. Mike Osterholm from the University of Minnesota on the Joe Rogan podcast. I replied, “yes.”  All of us in the rental car listened intently and learned a lot!  

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Resources for This Podcast: 

Webpage (2025). The University of Minnesota. https://twin-cities.umn.edu/

Webpage (2025). The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/

Webpage (2025).  The School of Public Health, University of Minnesota. https://www.sph.umn.edu/

The Osterholm Update Podcast (2025). Discussion and analysis on the latest infectious disease developments by Dr. Michael Osterholm and host Chris Dall. 180 Episodes as of today. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/osterholm-update

YouTube (2025). Public Health expert says, “there’s no way we won’t regret cuts” at Health and Human Services. Dr. Spencer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukKS1TKn5wA

Article (2025). Richert, C. Osterholm predicted the pandemic for years. Then the battle against COVID-19 became personal. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/10/michael-osterholms-battle-against-the-covid19-pandemic

YouTube (2022). Dr. Osterholm returns again to the Joe Rogan Podcast. Episode #1779. https://youtu.be/wyr3WHXMy5k?si=hsVjhh4JEa8Qsvjb

Article (2021). Nichols-Henning, A.  Q&A with Dr. Michal Osterholm. https://iloveinspired.com/dr-michael-osterholm

YouTube (2020). Dr. Osterholm on the Joe Rogan Podcast the very first time. Mentioned above. Episode #1439.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw

Amazon Books (2017). Osterholm, M. and Olshaker, M. Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs.  Also available at other book sellers.    

YouTube (2006):  Dr. Osterholm on the Oprah show predicted many things that happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://youtu.be/u6iZ2e11mkk

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Grass Roots Health is produced and hosted by Tim Jordan. 

Artwork created by Priyanka Banerjee.   

Audio editing, mixing, and mastering by Suma Recording, Painesville, Ohio  https://www.sumarecording.com/

Website design by Alex Brinkman, Green Tree Media, Perrysburg, Ohio www.greentreemediallc.com

The U.S. has an Israel problem. The problem is this: The U.S. has supplied weapons to Israel that have been used by Israel in serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law and in a manner that is inconsistent with U.S. law, policies, and values.  The U.S. has supported Israel since the modern establishment of the nation in 1948. There have been atrocities on both sides. However, the atrocities have been greater on the Israeli side. 

The 1795 website features a blog by this same title:  https://1795group.com/the-u-s-has-an-israel-problem/

For the better part of the 20th century, Israel expanded on the foundation of occupation and settler colonialism, while Palestinians attempted to resist within their limited resources and space. Many Israelis acted as if the Palestinians were not even there. Non-existent.  

Now we have a U.S. President that wants to permanently displace approximately 2 million people from their home to locations unknown after Israel demolished their homes with bombs and missiles. He also stated publicly that the US. will "take over" Gaza, displace nearly 2 million Palestinians from their home to locations that he did not specify, and turn Gaza into new "Riviera"

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Resources for This Podcast: 

1) Website (December 2024): Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect. Israel and the Occupied Palestian Territory.  https://www.globalr2p.org/countries/israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/

2) News Article (January 20, 2025).  BBC News.  Israel and the Palestinians: History of the conflict explained. https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44124396

3) Website: Amesty Interational (2023). Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/middle-east/israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/report-israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/

4) Lawler, D. & Ravid B. (February 4, 2025). Trump claims U.S. will "take over" Gaza and turn it into new "Riviera" Axios, https://www.axios.com/2025/02/05/trump-gaza-takeover-palestinians-israel

5) Article: Aljazeera News. Updated June 2, 2024.  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/6/2/israels-war-on-gaza-live-mediators-urge-israel-hamas-to-finalise-truce#:~:text=At%20least%2036%2C439%20Palestinians%20have,still%20held%20captive%20in%20Gaza

6) Article: BBC News. April 5, 2024. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67039975

7) Article: AP News. Updated May 23, 2024.  

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Attorney Maha Zeidan was booked by Tim Jordan. 

Artwork created by Samantha Hruby.  

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Is climate change caused by humans? Or is climate change a hoax made up by liberals? Is climate change just a naturally occurring phenomenon in the environment? Do over 97% of climate experts believe that humans are causing climate change? Who or what is responsible for the 26% of Americans who deny human-caused climate change and the 14% who deny climate change is happening at all?        

Listen as our host Tim Jordan asks one of the world’s top experts in climate change and its impact on the Amazon region these questions and more. Who is terrified? Who is optimistic?  Listen and find out. 

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Webpage (2024). International Science Council. Carlos Nobre, Senior Scientist. 

Webpage: (2021).  Amazonia 4.0. Scientific Council, Carlos Nobre, Counselor. 

Webpage (2024). The 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC Cop 30).

Article: Gounaridis, D. & Newell J. (2024). The social anatomy of climate change denial in the United States. Nature.  Scientific Reports. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-50591-6

Article:  Bohr, J. (2022). The structure and culture of climate change denial. The American Sociological Association, Footnotes. Volume 49 (3). 

Article: NASA (2024). Do scientists agree on climate change?  

Webpage:  Stanford University, (2025). Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. https://fsi.stanford.edu/global-populisms/global-populism-about

Article:  Sordi, J. (2024). Carlos Nobre a terrified by optimistic scientist at the COP biodiversity conference. Sumauma. 

Article:  Montaigne, F. (2019) Will deforestation and warming push the Amazon to a tipping point?  Yale University. Yale School of the Environment. Yale Environment 360. 

Video: (2021). Amazonia 4.0: The Reset Begins

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Dr. Carlos Nobre was booked by Tim Jordan. 

Artwork created by Samantha Hruby.  

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Website design by Alex Brinkman, Green Tree Media, Perrysburg, Ohio www.greentreemediallc.com

Of all similar, wealthy nations of the world, Americans pay the most for health care (I call it “sick care”) and receive the least back for their investment.  

Get out your large, foam finger. We are No. 1 in health care!  We're No 1.  USA! USA! USA!  Right? Wrong!  

Infant mortality (death) rate is often used as a proxy indicator of a nation’s health. The U.S. had a higher infant mortality rate than other wealthy countries like us in 2023. Even the Slovak Republic and Chile were better!    

The infant death rate in 2013 was 5.9 per 1,000 live births. What was the infant death rate in 2023, ten years into the future? The provisional number provided by the CDC for 2023 (CDC, 2024) was 5.61 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. A major drop, correct?  Nope!  However, Black infants died the most. I am sure it is the amount of pigment in their skin.   

A Vital Statistics Rapid Release report from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that the provisional infant mortality rate for the United States in 2022 rose 3% from 2021, the first year-to-year increase in the rate since 2001 to 2002. You can read the details here: Infant Mortality in United States: Provisional Data from the 2022 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death File 

In maternal health, the U.S. has a similar problem. In 2022, the maternal death rate was approximately 22 deaths per 100,000 live births, which again is much higher than other wealthy nations like ours. In fact, the U.S. maternal death rate is 55% greater than that of Chile.  

Like their babies, black pregnant moms have the highest death rates.   

Are there issues in maternal and child health? Listen as host, Tim Jordan explores these issues and more with our expert guest, Mr. Duane Herron of Georgia.    

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Resources for This Podcast: 

1) Website: Cobb and Douglass Counties, Public Heath

2) Website: CDC, Maternal and Child Heath. 

3) Report: March of Dimes Report Card for the U.S. 

4) Website: The World Health Organization. Social Determinants of Health

5) Podcast to Listen To:  The Fractured U.S. Health Care System.  https://1795group.com/episode/episode-2/

6)  Podcast to Listen To:  Is There Racism in the U.S. Health Care System?           https://1795group.com/episode/episode-4/

7)  Podcast to Listen To: Is There Racism in Maternal and Child Health in the United States?  

9)  Article to Read:  Systemic Racism – A Key Risk Factor for Maternal Death and Illness. (2021). https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/2021/systemic-racism-key-risk-factor-maternal-death-and-illness?

10) Article to Read: Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health:  Current Status and Efforts to Address Them (2022).  https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/racial-disparities-in-maternal-and-infant-health-current-status-and-efforts-to-address-them/?

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We are born, live, get old, and then die. This is the natural cycle of life. One thing is certain, humans have a 100% mortality rate. 

Death is a rite of passage in which we all participate – as a family member, a health care provider, or as a patient.    

Healthcare providers often view death through a biomedical lens and define death as a physiological event. As a result, they often view death very narrowly as a medical failure. Therefore, healthcare providers are frequently the worst “death deniers” in American society.   

Instead of talking about death and dying openly and honestly and allowing their patients to prepare for their departure, many healthcare providers often put their patients on the “medical treadmill” of another surgery, another amputation, another round of chemotherapy, or more radiation. Such medical treatment is frequently futile and only serves to steal the patient’s quality of life at the end-of-life stage. 

In this episode, our host, Tim Jordan, talks to Kelvin Freeman about what he has learned via his research with program directors of accredited physician assistant training programs across the U.S.  

Do physician assistant students receive adequate end-of-life education during their training?   Listen and find out.  

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Resources for This Podcast: 

Detroit Michigan Health Department: https://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-health-department

Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the U.S. Department of Labor. Emergency Preparedness and Response. https://www.osha.gov/emergency-preparedness

Article: (2024). Applying a Health Equity Lens to Better Understand End-of-Life Prognostication. 

Blog (2023).  Adding Life to One’s Remaining Days. 

Article: (2021). The COVID-19 pandemic has changed dying and grief: Will there be a surge of complicated grief? Death Studies, 84-90;   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07481187.2021.1929571

Article: (2020). COVID-19 brings a new urgency for advance care planning: Implications for death education. 

Article: (2019). Dying Well-Informed: The Need for Better Clinical Education Surrounding Facilitating End-of-Life Conversations. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 

Letter to the Editor:  The Uphill Task of Improving End-of-Life Training in U.S. Internal Medicine Residency Programs (2019). https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/fulltext/2019/10000/the_uphill_task_of_improving_end_of_life_training.5.aspx

Article: (2017) Predicting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning Using the Integrated Behavioral Model. 

Article: (2016). Teaching About Life and Living in Courses on Death and Dying. Death Studies. Written by Charles Corr.  

Podcast: Episode 7: Death and Dying from the Perspective of a Hospice Nurse – An Interview with Nurse Penny. 

TV interview with Dr. Tim Jordan on bereavement and grief. https://youtu.be/a0QWYEmbw40

Blog: The Mountain that Everyone Must Climb.

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Kelvin Freeman was booked by Tim Jordan. Artwork by Danielle Procopio. Audio editing and mastering by Christopher Stoll of Audio Flare Recording, Toledo, OH: https://www.audioflare.com/

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We adults have created a plastic pollution disaster for those that will follow in our footsteps. However, you can be part of the solution starting today!  

Microplastics, 5 millimeters or less in size, come from a variety of larger plastics such as plastic bottles, car tires, plastic beads (including those in skin-care products), and synthetic fibers. These larger plastics typically break down into smaller and smaller plastics called nano-plastics (less than 1 micrometer in size). Nano-plastics also come from industrial processes.      

Plastic pollution is also in our homes. Your carpet and rugs are especially to blame. Clothing, bedding, and other textiles shed microplastics in fiber form and are major contributors to plastic pollution, especially when washed. These microfibers, which are carried off by your drains from your washer, enter the wastewater, eventually end up in the environment.

The problem with plastics is that take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Only 10% of plastic waste is recycled. Most plastic waste just sits there in the soil in landfills as an environmental pollutant. Worse yet, about 11 million tons of plastic enter our oceans yearly. Let’s do something about this plastic disaster!    

Resources for this podcast: 

1) Judith Weis, Ph.D.:  Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Weis

2) Rutgers University Website: www.rutgers.edu

3) Biological Sciences at Rutgers Website: www.biology.rutger.edu

4) Books by Guest, Judith Weis. https://sites.rutgers.edu/judith-weis/books/

5) New Book by Guest, Judith Weis, Ph.D. Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know. 2nd Edition. (2024).  https://global.oup.com/academic/product/marine-pollution-9780197753811?lang=en&cc=us

6) Senator Jeff Merkley, Oregon.  https://www.congress.gov/member/jeff-merkley/M001176. Merkley introduces legislation to curb plastic pollution from laundry. https://www.congress.gov/member/jeff-merkley/M001176

7) Podcast Episode 26: Plastic Pollution is All Around Us. Should I Care? An Interview with Janet Brahney, Ph.D. https://1795group.com/episode/episode-26-plastic-pollution-is-all-around-us-should-i-care-an-interview-with-janet-brahney-ph-d/

8) Blog: (2024). Plastic Pollution is All Around Us. You Should Care. https://1795group.com/plastic-pollution-is-all-around-us/

9) Plastic Pollution Coalition (2024). Plastic Pollution Facts. https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/learn/plastic-pollution-facts

10) Article: (2024). Weiss, J. Laundry is a top source of microplastic pollution.  Here’s how to clean your clothes more sustainably. PBS News. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/laundry-is-a-top-source-of-microplastic-pollution-heres-how-to-clean-your-clothes-more-sustainably

11) Article: (2023). The National Park Service.  Reducing Laundry Microfibers. https://nps.gov/articles/000/laundry_microplastics.htm?utm

12) Article: (2023). Lozanova, S. How To Reduce Microfiber Pollution from Your Laundry. Earth911. https://earth911.com/home-garden/reduce-laundry-microfiber-pollution/

13)  Article: (2024). Frank, G. This Washing Machine Filter Gulps Up Microplastics. The Triple Pundit.

14)  Article (2024). Engler, S. 10 Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution. Natural Resources Defense Council.  https://www.nrdc.org/stories/10-ways-reduce-plastic-pollution?utm_source

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