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Mostly stop using so much plastic, probably. A lot of plastic (for instance plastic bottles) is being used under pressure from the industry. As long as Coca Col
by wazoox 4y ago
Mostly stop using so much plastic, probably. A lot of plastic (for instance plastic bottles) is being used under pressure from the industry. As long as Coca Cola used glass bottle, it was on them to collect, clean and reuse them. Now that they switched to plastic, it's everyone else's problem. Forbid plastic bottles, and that part of the problem will solve itself.
- taylorhughes 4y agoThe author somehow misses this obvious conclusion.
- readingnews 4y agoYes, how do I do that when every damn thing at every damn store is wrapped in plastic? Sometimes two to three times (the package is plastic wrapped, and each item is also wrapped in plastic)? Food, goods, boxes even wrapped in plastic... We need to change the behaviour of companies wrapping everything in plastic. I do not see that happening soon, and am not sure how to encourage them to do so (plastic is so cheap).
- bliteben 4y agoShort of nationalizing the entire petrochemical industry how do you propose stopping them from just making something else with the current plastic by-products?
- objectivetruth 4y ago
- wazoox 4y agoI'm fine with nationalising any industry as necessary. We should be in a war economy, a command economy (exactly like during WWII) to control pollution and climate change. The situation is actually more serious than WWII.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoTax it.
- jamincan 4y agoThey started mandating that businesses charge for plastic bags where I live, and it made a huge difference from a culture that scarcely used reuseable bags/bins, to one that predominately uses them (at least anecdotally, I don't have stats). I sometimes think that obvious solutions seem harder than they actually are in reality.
- dehrmann 4y agoAre plastic bottles a problem? Most of the issues for marine life seem to be shapes things get caught in or eat. I'm not sure if bottles fit that.