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Personally, I think that in answer to the question of “how to avoid all that plastic?”, the article is leaning more towards “take action to stop the plastic fro
by joshspankit 4y ago
Personally, I think that in answer to the question of “how to avoid all that plastic?”, the article is leaning more towards “take action to stop the plastic from being produced and added to food in the first place”.
While it makes the problem larger from an individual perspective, the alternative of simply trying to avoid it in our own foods would mean that our available foods shrink over time as plastics continue to seep in to more and more places.
- pc86 4y ago> the article is leaning more towards “take action to stop the plastic from being produced and added to food in the first place” Which is kind of nonsense unless someone happens to be CEO of Molson Coors or something. It seems obvious that if you want to avoid ingesting plastic, the clearest path to that is to know what foods are less likely to contain plastic in the first place.
- refurb 4y agoMicro plastics are mostly fibers shed from fabric. So stop buying synthetic or semi-synthetic clothing and only buy cotton or other organic materials.
- bonniemuffin 4y agoIf consumers know which products have more microplastics and are able to avoid them, it'll produce market forces that encourage businesses to reduce the microplastics in their products. The free market doesn't always move in the right direction, but in this case aligning the incentives could really help -- if we don't even know which products to avoid, there's no chance of market forces helping to push businesses in the right direction.