Sometimes you just have to simplify, particularly in times of great stress. Now, is a time of distress for our planet. It is time to simplify things. At the moment I’m thinking about plastic. We do not need so many different formulations. If we restricted our plastic use to certain types of easily recycled plastic we could focus our efforts to improving our recycling process and making these simpler processes more widely available.
I know that restricting anything means that some plastic users will struggle to create packaging in this limited format. Obviously we would make medical plastic anyway they like, but containers for dish soap, water bottles and take out boxes can adapt. It would probably need to start as a voluntary pledge led by a group that is capable of choosing the four or five formulations of plastic that are most used and most easily recycled. Having limited our choices we could then get good at recycling plastic, allowing smaller communities to participate in plastic recycling efforts.
Just thinking.
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