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“The industry likes to put the responsibility on the individual,” says the study’s author, Marcus Eriksen, a plastic pollution expert from The 5 Gyres Institute
by pingou 2y ago
“The industry likes to put the responsibility on the individual,” says the study’s author, Marcus Eriksen, a plastic pollution expert from The 5 Gyres Institute.
“But we’d like to point out that it’s the brands, it’s their choice for the kinds of packaging [they use] and for embracing this throwaway model of delivering their goods. That’s what’s causing the greatest abundance of trash.”
That seems like an adequate point coming from the industry.
I think a more interesting statistic would be obtained by dividing the trash by the volume of sales. Otherwise, it doesn't seem meaningful that the items sold more often are more prevalent in litter.
- hooverd 2y agoIt's a moving target, but if you encourage the sources of the most prevalent items to use packaging that isn't single us plastic, you'd bring down the totals. There would still definitely be a long tail of packaging.
- BizarroLand 2y agoMaking it so that the 60-100 companies producing the majority of single plastics waste face severe economic sanctions or plastics pollution would resolve half of the total plastics trash waste on the planet on its own and have a chilling effect on the single use plastics industry across the board. If they stop buying/making single uses plastics, their customers will stop using them. EZ.