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Creating somewhere close doesn't mean that all the ingredients will be created locally too. And then you suddently have a situation where ingredients needs to b
by ThomPete 7y ago
Creating somewhere close doesn't mean that all the ingredients will be created locally too. And then you suddently have a situation where ingredients needs to be shipped around the world.
It might as well be that creating everything one place and shipping it globally is actually better.
Also weight of cloth bags are higher and it's not certain that they will be used as many times as you might think before you buy a new one, loose it, forget it etc.
In other words, it's not a good as you might think and it's certainly much more complex than just buying a tote bag vs. plastic.
Much of this looks more like a fools errand to me. We are much better of using what we want to use.
Cleaning our oceans from plastic is certainly a priority but the number one way to prevent that from happening is to make countries richer so they start caring and are able to deal with their plastic waste.
- _ph_ 7y agoI would assume that most countries would have the ability to create cloth bags locally. Which raises the question: where does the clothing people wear come from and what is its environment impact? Also: where do all the plastic bags get created? Personally, I would think that plastic makes for a great low-resource material, as long as we make sure it is recycled or burnt. But the plastic in the sea has become a far too serious problem. And yes, the biggest sources of plastic in the sea are places where plastics doesn't get caught in a proper disposal system. Helping there would also be a priority. Yet, as with many other things, the rather rich countries - we tend to call ourselves "developed" - have a burdon to lead ahead with the reduction of the plastic waste. Either by developing alternatives or plastics, which decompose quickly enough to be no problem when escaping into nature.