D. I honestly don’t know what your point had to do with mine? Something about it be political? My point was that it’s simply a way for oil companies and heavy plastic users to reframe it as the every mans problem you know the people who can not stop it.
A ban on something doesn’t blame the consumer? It simply stops one aspect of unnecessary plastic pollution which has a tiny positive effect.
Plastic bottles in Germany have a 25 cent deposit that you can earn back by returning them when they are empty. This has significantly reduced plastic pollution for plastic bottles which is a tiny but positive effect.
Certain colored plastics for plastic bottles are prohibited too because they are not recyclable. A tiny but positive step.
Once you have hundreds of such steps you have a significant positive leap. The government should ban disposable plastics altogether ideally now but every single ban is putting us a step closer to a world free from plastic.
That’s definitely a top priority.
Eh, about as High priority as switching them out in the first place.
Reducing microplastics is a high priority. One that no one ever took seriously.
A. it’s not we don’t even have any scientific reason to think it’s bad for us.
B. The whole thing is a distraction from the real issues.
C. The total amount of plastic can’t go down until we reduce manufacturing.
D. It reframes environmental issues to the consumer the exact kind of marketing campaign companies have been using for years.
Wow, where to begin…
A, we have plenty of evidence to support plastic being bad for humans, and the entire planet.
B, we can chew gum and walk.
C, what did you think not manufacturing plastic straws would do? Reduce manufacturing.
D, if you don’t make it political, then it’s not political. It’s just reducing plastic waste.
A. You have just made a positive assertion that is easily proven and presented no studies, I’m waiting.
B. we absolutely cannot walk and chew gum at the same time attention is the modern currency.
C. Removing plastic straws did not reduce plastic manufacturing and it wasn’t supposed to reduce the manufacturing of plastic.
D. I honestly don’t know what your point had to do with mine? Something about it be political? My point was that it’s simply a way for oil companies and heavy plastic users to reframe it as the every mans problem you know the people who can not stop it.
A ban on something doesn’t blame the consumer? It simply stops one aspect of unnecessary plastic pollution which has a tiny positive effect.
Plastic bottles in Germany have a 25 cent deposit that you can earn back by returning them when they are empty. This has significantly reduced plastic pollution for plastic bottles which is a tiny but positive effect.
Certain colored plastics for plastic bottles are prohibited too because they are not recyclable. A tiny but positive step.
Once you have hundreds of such steps you have a significant positive leap. The government should ban disposable plastics altogether ideally now but every single ban is putting us a step closer to a world free from plastic.
Except it objectively did not reduce plastic production and it soured the end consumers opinion on environmental conservation.