Boycott plastic... A boycott worthy of your time and energy.

[justoffal]

While people around the world are busy with culture boycotts our global trash problem continues to grow exponentially. While it is a many pronged and complex problem one of the most obvious emergencies is plastic pollution. Right now it is destroying parts of the global oceans. What can you do?

Do your best to reduce your purchase of products that are packaged in plastic. Recycling is a feel-good activity that has little impact in the final analysis. Source reduction is a much better approach.

jo

 

[merrill]

While people around the world are busy with culture boycotts our global trash problem continues to grow exponentially. While it is a many pronged and complex problem one of the most obvious emergencies is plastic pollution. Right now it is destroying parts of the global oceans. What can you do?

Do your best to reduce your purchase of products that are packaged in plastic. Recycling is a feel-good activity that has little unknown impact in the final analysis. Source reduction is a much better
approach.

Thumbs up ......

 

[Bob Blaylock]

While people around the world are busy with culture boycotts our global trash problem continues to grow exponentially. While it is a many pronged and complex problem one of the most obvious emergencies is plastic pollution. Right now it is destroying parts of the global oceans. What can you do?

Do your best to reduce your purchase of products that are packaged in plastic. Recycling is a feel-good activity that has little impact in the final analysis. Source reduction is a much better approach.

jo

 

[Manonthestreet]

Aren't plastic cars wonderful

 

[Concerned American]

Do your best to reduce your purchase of products that are packaged in plastic.

Good luck with that. That is also a feel good approach. What about every toy, vehicle or manufactured cooking utensil? How about returning to sustainable mfg. of old such as paper straws instead of inconveniencing the public with bans on straws, paper bags instead of moronic bans on bags to carry your purchases home in. Just two examples of solutions instead of gov't control. Legalize the production of hemp, another sustainable, useful product that an over reaching government outlawed. The more government intervenes in daily life, the less innovation takes place. Ban government control.

 

[gipper]

Good luck with that. That is also a feel good approach. What about every toy, vehicle or manufactured cooking utensil? How about returning to sustainable mfg. of old such as paper straws instead of inconveniencing the public with bans on straws, paper bags instead of moronic bans on bags to carry your purchases home in. Just two examples of solutions instead of gov't control. Legalize the production of hemp, another sustainable, useful product that an over reaching government outlawed. The more government intervenes in daily life, the less innovation takes place. Ban government control.

I try to avoid plastics, but it’s impossible to eliminate. It’s everywhere.

 

[ReinyDays]

I try to avoid plastics, but it’s impossible to eliminate. It’s everywhere.

Computers can't work without plastic ... home electrical wiring is gone without plastic ... food prices skyrocket ... cars completely magnetic ... mercy ...

 

[justoffal]

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Good luck with that. That is also a feel good approach. What about every toy, vehicle or manufactured cooking utensil? How about returning to sustainable mfg. of old such as paper straws instead of inconveniencing the public with bans on straws, paper bags instead of moronic bans on bags to carry your purchases home in. Just two examples of solutions instead of gov't control. Legalize the production of hemp, another sustainable, useful product that an over reaching government outlawed. The more government intervenes in daily life, the less innovation takes place. Ban government control.

Well said

 

[petro]

I try to avoid plastics, but it’s impossible to eliminate. It’s everywhere.

Stupid shit like this doesn't help either...

Good luck trying to cut that crap open without losing a finger.

So much wasteful packaging..

Lol.
Need the tool to get to the tool.

 

[gipper]

Stupid shit like this doesn't help either...
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Good luck trying to cut that crap open without losing a finger.

So much wasteful packaging..
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Lol.
Need the tool to get to the tool.

Exactly. Packaging of products is ridiculous. So much waste.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Plastics CANNOT be "recycled". Not the way the public thinks anyway.

Plastics CANNOT be remelted without completely destroying their structure and benefit value.
In essence, you destroy what was created from plastic, and you've wasted many resources in the attempt to just essentially "burn trash" that gets dumped into a landfill anyway.

Plastics CAN, however, be recycled by cutting them, remolding them, or grinding them up to make such things as pressed sheets of plastic, plastic based insulation, or adding it to other resources to make them waterproof/float worthy/aging protected.

I've even seen some people build huts and homes out of plastic bottles.


In order to PREVENT waste, you have to RESTRICT usage and creation.

After all, you CANNOT HAVE WASTE without having EXCESS in the first place.

Visual Feature | Beat Plastic Pollution

Around the world, one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute, while 500 billion single-use plastic bags are used worldwide every year. In total, half of all plastic produced is designed to be used only once — and then thrown away.

www.unep.org

Marine biologists have already discovered that all the plastic dumped into the oceans from the 50's to the 70's has degraded to the extent that it's been injested by scavenging marine life...........this includes shrimp, lobster, clams, urchins, and such. Plastic has literally been found in their DNA structures.

So think about THAT next time you're eating seafood.

 

[justoffal]

Computers can't work without plastic ... home electrical wiring is gone without plastic ... food prices skyrocket ... cars completely magnetic ... mercy ...

You're right of course....
Still some effort is warranted...but yes we have built an entire economy around it.

 

[petro]

Seriously?

 

[justoffal]

Plastics CANNOT be "recycled". Not the way the public thinks anyway.

Plastics CANNOT be remelted without completely destroying their structure and benefit value.
In essence, you destroy what was created from plastic, and you've wasted many resources in the attempt to just essentially "burn trash" that gets dumped into a landfill anyway.

Plastics CAN, however, be recycled by cutting them, remolding them, or grinding them up to make such things as pressed sheets of plastic, plastic based insulation, or adding it to other resources to make them waterproof/float worthy/aging protected.

I've even seen some people build huts and homes out of plastic bottles.


In order to PREVENT waste, you have to RESTRICT usage and creation.

After all, you CANNOT HAVE WASTE without having EXCESS in the first place.

Visual Feature | Beat Plastic Pollution

Around the world, one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute, while 500 billion single-use plastic bags are used worldwide every year. In total, half of all plastic produced is designed to be used only once — and then thrown away.

www.unep.org

Marine biologists have already discovered that all the plastic dumped into the oceans from the 50's to the 70's has degraded to the extent that it's been injested by scavenging marine life...........this includes shrimp, lobster, clams, urchins, and such. Plastic has literally been found in their DNA structures.

So think about THAT next time you're eating seafood.

Wow

 

[Bob Blaylock]

How about returning to sustainable mfg. of old such as paper straws instead of inconveniencing the public with bans on straws…

 

[gipper]

Plastics CANNOT be "recycled". Not the way the public thinks anyway.

Plastics CANNOT be remelted without completely destroying their structure and benefit value.
In essence, you destroy what was created from plastic, and you've wasted many resources in the attempt to just essentially "burn trash" that gets dumped into a landfill anyway.

Plastics CAN, however, be recycled by cutting them, remolding them, or grinding them up to make such things as pressed sheets of plastic, plastic based insulation, or adding it to other resources to make them waterproof/float worthy/aging protected.

I've even seen some people build huts and homes out of plastic bottles.


In order to PREVENT waste, you have to RESTRICT usage and creation.

After all, you CANNOT HAVE WASTE without having EXCESS in the first place.

Visual Feature | Beat Plastic Pollution

Around the world, one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute, while 500 billion single-use plastic bags are used worldwide every year. In total, half of all plastic produced is designed to be used only once — and then thrown away.

www.unep.org

Marine biologists have already discovered that all the plastic dumped into the oceans from the 50's to the 70's has degraded to the extent that it's been injested by scavenging marine life...........this includes shrimp, lobster, clams, urchins, and such. Plastic has literally been found in their DNA structures.

So think about THAT next time you're eating seafood.

It’s likely in human DNA too.

 

[petro]

Let's not forget the latest pollution creator, mask requirements...

Shouldn't this shit have been redbagged and incinerated as a biohazard since it was the deadliest virus evah?

Naw, just dump the suckers in the street to wash into our waters.

 

[Oddball]

Stupid shit like this doesn't help either...


So much wasteful packaging..
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Lol.
Need the tool to get to the tool.

 

[justoffal]

It’s likely in human DNA too.

Oh great

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

We used to have paper.............a RENEWABLE SOURCE that CAN be legitamately RECYCLED!!!!

Paper bags, paper straws, paper cups, paper plates (not just the flimsy kind for picnics), paper sheets for wrapping, paper for padding, etc.....

Then they all went to plastic.

Now, after many decades, places are going BACK to paper. Some grocery stores don't even use plastic bags anymore, its all paper.

I collect my plastic bags and give them to the charity places that use them on a daily basis for their food pantrys and shops.