Babies

There is a site here on which you can upload pictures of you and your partner/friend/Snape to generate a picture of prospective babies.
Good in theory, the programme is about as accurate as the Sims baby generator and has not incorporated even the most basic facts of genetics. When I compared myself to the picture I received after submitting my parents I can't say that it's good for actual baby planning, but it's an excellent toy.

For those who always wondered what Minerva's and Snape's dreamchild would have looked like:



( Other offspring of various pairings (MM/SS, RL/SS, RL/NT, SS/LV, SS/PW, SS/PD, SS/LE, HP/GW, HP/DM) )

( Edward/Bella )

So, now back to some actual work.

"Except for the small amount that's been incinerated, every bit of plastic ever made still exists."

Someone in environment  posted a rather alarming article about the effects of plastic on the oceans -  and there was a statistic on recycling in the US that caught my eye: 



Three to five percent? That's not a lot.

As far as I know, this is different in the EU. Not only are 80% of all wastes recovered in most member states, 40% of plastics are recycled and rising. Many of the well-off member states don't use landfills at all any more, our newest member states still do, and there is of course the problem of waste being shipped off to China for recycling or to other countries to be put in landfills, anyway.
Still, on the whole, I was shocked to find that things are SO much worse in the US. Although maybe, considering what even EU recycling can look like, I maybe didn't have reason to think too highly of it.