Plastic seals food, sterile medical implements, medicine, beverages, etc… it’s seems like plastic is used as a way to seal things safely. Post pandemic rising, I see even more. My work used to be have plastic utensils in the cafeteria, for example, an already wasteful thing. Now, post-2020, every fork, knife, and spoon is individually wrapped in a plastic wrapper. I feel like the more my desire to escape plastic intensifies, the more plastic I see all around me everywhere.

How can we get away from plastic as a safety layer?

  • PupBiru@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    the plastic problem is separate from the carbon problem though… we don’t ban plastics because we’re concerned about climate change; we ban them because we are worried that microplastics are causing significant health effects to both humans and most other animals

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      11 months ago

      Still, there is that other thing to worry about as well. The eco system is a system, doesn’t depend on one thing only.

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        11 months ago

        of course, but they are complex problems and you shouldn’t poo poo a potential mitigation to 1 because it negatively impacts another

        the solutions to complex problems shouldn’t require being solutions to every complex problem