Is the type of plastic the problem, or is it the fact that we are overwhelmed with vast quantities of waste we cannot process? That compares to 745kg of municipal waste a year generated per person in the US and 237kg in Africa. Her foundation argues that the plastic waste crisis is just the symptom of a single-use culture and that plastics should never become waste. We can shop hyper-locally, frequent secondhand shops, grow more food ourselves, become more self-sufficient. Streets full of secondhand shops depress some people, but in an ecologically literate world they should be seen as pioneers of a new kind of socially aware consumerism.

Source: The Guardian January 14, 2020 09:01 UTC