THE BIG BUZZ: Sarah Kaeck, Bee's Wrap
by Joyce Marcel, Vermont Business Magazine In a little building by the train tracks in Middlebury, the war against plastics is being profitably waged, one hunk of beeswax at a time. Plastics, as we now recognize, are devastating to the environment. “Studies have detected plastic fibers everywhere—in the stomachs of sperm whales, in tap water and in table salt,” said a recent story in the Irish Times, although it could have appeared anywhere. (Google “plastics” and get about 4,290,000,000 results in 0.71 seconds) “A researcher in Britain says plastic may help define the most recent layer of the earth’s crust because it takes so long to break down and there is so much of it.”