The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much.
But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic.
Don't be fooled.
(Published June 2024)
But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic.
Don't be fooled.
(Published June 2024)
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We need to package food like they did in the 50's.
Wax paper, wax cartons, paper bags.
We need to buy less at a time and cut down on both packaging and food waste.
Which is why we need more small scale community level production/management of... *everything* really (food, clothing, hygiene, recycling, etc)
Also, corn on the cob is now sold in shrink-wrapped plastic in styrofoam trays. WTF?
long term there are ways to mitigate that but rn it's all $$$
We need to bury it all so deep it can't come back.
We don't need plastics. There are alternatives.
2. Reuse
3. Recycle
Even *if* plastics recycling were not a greenwashing scam to let us pretend to sustainably use plastic, the *first* R is reduce. Use less /make less /throw away less. You recycle non-renewable resources that you must use (glass, metal) but you should use less, period.
The main ingredient in most plastic material is a derivative from crude oil and natural gas.
Hello World,
this is "micro plastic" . . .
... it's in rivers, lakes and oceans,
... it's in animals, in the soil and in us.
💠 😔 🫣 😠 💠
Meanwhile back in CA, that issue has almost completely disappeared after a decade of plastic bag bans.
No one misses them.
I couldn’t find one positive public benefit of free single use grocery bags. Except there was a *personal* benefit for *some* individuals who reused the bags for pet waste & trash bin lining. That’s nice for those folks but at great taxpayer cost.
For years there were overflowing cardboard bins at the stores.
Think about it, here is a flimsy single use grocery bag to bring home. Next time, BRING THE BAGS BACK to the store to throw away and get new ones
It appears that our evolutionary selection has been amplifying greed, so not sure we can deal with LESS.
Is there an economist who can explain to me why the expression of capital seems like it is always engaged in misdirection these days? Has it always been so? Doesn’t seem like “market efficiency” to me.
Just swapping electric vehicles for gas vehicles is not sustainable.
Plastic didn’t take over until the 2000s.
We did it before, we can do it again.
Humans did this to themselves! Buckle up idiots!
Imagine the shock after ALL THAT—they asked for the wrong zoning 💅
Make sense now?