Great report on CBC’s The National tonight by Greg Rasmussen investigating the amount of plastic that washes up on remote parts of BC’s coastline. As you can imagine we’ve fucked things up real good. The bulk of it seems to be marine industry related such as dock floats, fishing gear, etc, but there’s plenty of consumer plastic as well.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bc-plastic-beach-cleanup-1.6103786
A while back in a food thread I think I toyed with the idea of trying to eliminate disposable plastic from my life. Watching that report tonight added some fuel to that goal. I think for the average person trying to do it for just a week or two would really illustrate the issue of how pervasive plastic is in our lives. Could you go a couple of weeks without buying anything that includes plastic that will get thrown out or into recycling?
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer
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