A repost copied word for word, by Razzouk, Assaad.
Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit: What They Don’t Tell You About the Climate Crisis.
In 1973, each person on earth used two kilos of plastic a year. Fast forward to today, and each one of us uses 46 kilos of plastic.
Right now, worldwide, we eat, drink and breathe plastic with every meal, every drink and every breath we take. We do so at the rate of about 200,000 plastic particles for every human being on the planet every year.
Microplastics are generated when common household items like bags, clothes and cosmetics made partly or wholly from plastic break into tiny particles and enter our environment. These particles then circulate and slowly, inexorably make their way into our rivers, our oceans and our groundwater before coming back to us via our drinking water, our vegetables, our fish, our meat and our air.
The companies that make microplastics are the same ones responsible for the climate change emergency: the oil, gas and petrochemicals companies.
They are enjoying a free ride by dumping plastic on us with little thought or control, in collaboration with some of the biggest companies in the world: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone, Kraft, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Mars, Colgate-Palmolive, all brands that make loud claims on their websites about how much they care about nature, sustainability and the environment.
They’re not paying for any of the damage caused by plastics,
It really is an extraordinary gig: unleash poisonous pollutants everywhere, completely free of charge, and make lots of money doing it. If the destructive impact of producing plastic was priced into products, society would not be able to afford it.
These are extracts take from Razzouk, Assaad. Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit: What They Don’t Tell You About the Climate Crisis.
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...on PBS' Nova they had a great show about plastic. What a complex material.
ReplyDeleteI liked that NOVA does give science as data. A good show.
DeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteThe big corporations only care about their profits. Take care, have a great new week.
It is a huge problem. Ontario has just banned plastic bags, thankfully. Plastic straws, as well.
ReplyDeleteThat's a big step forward. Yes indeed. I shall tell my 0-Plastic friends.
DeleteI can't help worrying that all our individual attempts to avoid plastics and other pollutants are overcome by the emissions of big corporations. But I still do my little bit.
ReplyDeleteThe pollution from those big corporations is often from their making plastic things. The less the public uses, the less they will eventually produce. Add to that the places around the world, Ontario (mentioned just above) San Francisco, New York, France...no more plastic shopping bags. Individuals who not only reduce their own use are the ones who vote for these people making those laws. I still have hope, though there seem days where the outlook is bleak.
DeleteSobering.
ReplyDeleteA friend is working on a list of companies who sell various household products without any plastic in them, nor in manufacturing or packaging them. It is a work in progress.
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