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I mean if you manage to recycle or burn the plastic I'm assuming you don't get many nanoparticles into the environment. But if plastic ends up in rivers and oce
by carlmr 6y ago
I mean if you manage to recycle or burn the plastic I'm assuming you don't get many nanoparticles into the environment. But if plastic ends up in rivers and oceans it's going to slowly fall apart and release particles. Tires always release particles when used.
The problem is how do you replace these? And how many that could be recycled or burned aren't? A lot of packaging plastic doesn't end up in the right place, so the only way to get a significant reduction here is to get rid of any non-essential use. And we should start where there is the most plastic used. Both of these together point to single use plastics in food packaging.
You don't need to package vegetables and fruit in plastic. Recycled paper bags do just fine.
It's an easy reduction.