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The Plastic Clock
Plastic made worldwide since 1950
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Made so far this year
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Made so far today
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Since you opened this page
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Rate right now
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Recycled plastic in this year’s output
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New plastic from oil and gas this year
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Recycled share
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Microplastic particles eaten in protein foods by all Americans since you opened this page
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By one American so far this year
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Metric tonnes (t). Production 1950–2019: Geyer, Jambeck & Law (2017) and OECD (2022). Later years estimated and projected from Plastics Europe world production data (2018–2024). Recycled share: Plastics Europe, Fast Facts 2025. Microplastics: average of about 11,500 particles per person per year from protein foods alone (Milne et al. 2024), so a low estimate.

Horror Host Icon,Svengoolie! & John, July 2026

 

 

Natalie Scharf (aka Anita X. Orcist) and John

Jakob Dylan - The Wallflowers

Bob Dylan's Guitarist! Joel Paterson
All Original Members of

Book of Love Jade Lee, Lauren Roselli, Ted Ottaviano & Susan Ottaviano
Amy Helm, outstanding singer & songwriter, also daughter of Levon Helm w/John

John in Woodstock, New York at the Big Pink house

Adjacent to the basement of The Basement Tapes

Gone but never forgotten, Grateful Dead Icon, Phil Lesh!
Living Legend, Booker T. Jones

Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music & John

Chicago Radio Icon, Terri Hemmert

Debbie Harry of Blondie & John, December 2015, WTTW Soundstage Studio, Chicago, IL

Darryl Jones! Official non-official Rolling Stone and Chicago native
Going strong after 50 years, Graham Parker, May 23, 2026
New Wave Music Legend, Lene Lovich, September 21, 2025
Chicago Blues Icon, Billy Branch and wife Rosa

Living Legend, Founding Father of the Blues, Buddy Guy, (still smiling and rocking @ a young 86 years!)

Founding Father of American Punk Rock - Chris Stein (with Debbie Harry)

 

Tom Parker Bowles, Stepson of King Charles III

You do yourself no favors by drinking bottled water, in fact, you probably do yourself quite a bit of harm:

Jim Peterik: Ides of March/Survivor/.38 Special

 
The inimitable Peter Buck of R.E.M. & The Baseball Project

Plastic recycling is a distraction promoted by petrochemical companies.

Don Was, Detroit's Greatest Champion and Export
   

Humans ALL ingest

Beautiful, sweet, and what a voice! Cindy Wilson of The B-52s!

Mark Mothersbaugh, Legendary Artistic Genius of Devo and a Multitude of Other Projects

We are FAR beyond the tipping point of plastic pollution.

Jon King, Gang of Four, vocals, mesmerizing dancing and general onstage mayhem
Hugo Burnham, Gang of Four, drums and percussion
Ted Leo, Gang of Four's brilliant guitarist
Gail Greenwood, Gang of Four's Killer Bassist
Jerome Dupree, drummer of Morphine, w/Angie (photograph was lost in the shuffle for over a decade, returned to the public sphere 7/24/25)
 

The Glass Straw Guy's PLASTIC FREE solution to dining leftovers:

Sara Lee, former bassist of Gang of Four
Andy Gill, former Gang of Four, gone much too soon. R.I.P.

Plastic recycling is a fraud promoted by plastic producers - the Fossil Fuel Industry

Outstanding Blues Guitarist Sue Foley w/John
 

 

John & Adam Duritz of Counting Crows
Adam Duritz of Counting Crows rejects the proferred glass straw, my earliest celebrity straw pic, November 2012 outside the Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles
 

Glass Straw Guy in the News:

   

Godfather of British Blues, John Mayall

Guitar virtuoso Sonny Landreth

Remember, you TRIPLE your impact every time you reject single-use plastic:

NO EXTRACTION; NO PRODUCTION; NO PLASTIC

Please avoid single-use plastic proactively.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     

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