Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumWe Made Plastic. We Depend on It. Now We're Drowning in It
I've posted a lot about plastic because I think it's an important issue and one that we have the power to do something about. Here is an in-depth look at the issue...
If plastic had been invented when the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, to North Americaand the Mayflower had been stocked with bottled water and plastic-wrapped snackstheir plastic trash would likely still be around, four centuries later.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/plastic-planet-waste-pollution-trash-crisis/
FirstLight
(13,366 posts)This is definitely as serious as nuclear waste IMO
I look around my house and everywhere I go in my life and feel guilty about all of it.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Instead of petroleum based as today.
Bad choice going with petroleum.
mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)to at least replace sandwich bags. So far my 2 local grocery stores don't carry it. I need to find it soon, I only have 5 sandwich bags left. Next up the switch over to paper straws.