Printing this on single use #plastics does not make it less single use plastic
#recycle #reduce #singleuseplastic

https://www.europesays.com/uk/33673/ Researchers In Japan Find An Alternative To Single Use Plastic #Environment #Microplastics #Plastics #Science #SingleUsePlastic #UK #UnitedKingdom

When I was a kid, potato chips came in paper bags covered in foil. Single serving pudding came in tins. Pop came in cans or glass bottles. Milk came in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. Groceries were carried in paper bags.

In my lifetime, single use plastics has increased exponentially.

And now we each have enough microplastics in our brains to make a plastic spoon.
#plastic #PlasticPollution #SingleUsePlastic #pollution

I had no idea. I am a partially plastic person … we all are. See this movie. #plasticpeople #microplastics #environment #plastic #poison #pfas #benzine #singleuseplastic #oilindustry #greed #money #particles #nonPlasticCommunities youtu.be/baJ8hWxrB5s?...

Plastic People | Official Trai...

“Recycling campaigns and greenwashing help plastic producers hide these facts from consumers. They make it harder for buyers to make smart and eco-friendly choices and for lawmakers to create fair and informed regulations.”
#RecyclingAndWasteManagement #PlasticPollution #PlasticBan #SingleUsePlastic #recycling #PlasticsIndustry #PlasticWaste #BanSingleUsePlastic

Explosive new report accuses major corporations of lying for decades: 'It's clearly fraud they're engaged in' https://flip.it/HpTLdg

How is this even legal? Seen at #Spar Austria. #SingleUsePlastic #environment

Good to see a local coffee shop starting to do this on the #IsleofMan and hopefully one day the big brand ones will change also. Sick of seeing the mess single use ones make.

Governments need to push harder for this. It's not hard to clean a cup and bring it.

Well done #Noa

https://www.europesays.com/972331/ France to ban plastic packaging for fresh produce in new year • FRANCE 24 English #agriculture #CarbonEmissions #Climate #Environment #france #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FranceNews #france24 #FRANCE24English #FrenchNews #FruitsAndVegetables #NewsFrance #PlasticPackaging #produce #SingleUsePlastic

SO AWESOME! I wish the whole world would.

#plasticfree #plasticpollution #singleuseplasticban #SingleUsePlastic

https://ktla.com/news/california/another-southern-california-city-likely-to-ban-single-use-plastics/amp/

Think that your #plastic is being recycled? Think again.

Plastic is cheap to make and shockingly profitable. It’s everywhere. And we’re all paying the price.

By Douglas Main
October 12, 2023

"#PlasticPollution—'a scourge on a planetary scale,' as French president Emmanuel Macron has put it—most affects those least able to deal with its consequences. Noting that the #PlasticIndustry generates upward of $700 billion a year in revenues, the UN Environment Programme (#UNEP) also concluded that the industry 'inflicts a heavy burden on #HumanHealth and #EnvironmentalDegradation, with the poorest in society facing the highest impacts whilst contributing the least to plastic over-consumption and waste.'

"This is true at every stage of plastic’s life cycle. #Manufacturing plants are concentrated in communities of color—such as in #Louisiana, in an area along the #MississippiRiver often called '#CancerAlley,' which is home to nearly 150 #OilRefineries, plastics plants, and #chemical facilities. Such plants emit #AirPollution that raises risks of cancer and other diseases. A panel of UN human rights experts said the situation amounts to a 'form of environmental racism [that] poses serious and disproportionate threats to the ... human rights of its largely #AfricanAmerican residents.'

"This pollution also disproportionately harms poor and developing countries that produce little or no plastic, such as those in #Africa, the #Pacific, and elsewhere."

I love this article about those tiny plastic pizza tables that keep the box lid off a freshly-made delivery/take-out pizza.

"If all single-use plastics are banned, Kalaydjian said he'll come up with some other solution, or figures someone else will."

#singleuseplastic #Pizza

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-pizza-saver-1.6968750

England's single-use plastics ban does not tackle takeaway boxes, warns Greenpeace

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66946643

I can't even buy a lettuce which isn't wrapped in single use plastic at my local supermarket.

And really it's that simple. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66083337.amp #SingleUsePlastic

2 in 3 plastic products are short-lived and soon become waste, polluting our soils and oceans and ultimately our bodies

Since 2021, the EU has banned 10 #SingleUsePlastic items to fight plastic pollution.

This #WorldEnvironmentDay let’s #BeatPlasticPollution together.

: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncil/status/1665651831966507008

Doing a popup @columbiaclimate #sustainwhat conversation with Tom Jackson about this plastic surge in an Indonesian irrigation canal at 8am US ET. His work: https://honest-ocean.com/pages/about Show streams @revkin at 8.
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RT @sustainme_in
#BuildSustainableNow

What on earth are we doing? This will all end up in our Ocean.
: Tom Jackson v @LewisPugh

#ClimateActionNow #sustainme #plastic #PlasticPollution
#waste #singleuseplastic…
https://twitter.com/sustainme_in/status/1653239285808783361

Some 250 million red roses will land in the arms of Americans on Valentine’s Day. Depending on where they’re grown and purchased, the flowers could also have a big carbon footprint—all wrapped in a non-recyclable plastic sheath.

By managing editor Adrienne Mason.

#ValentinesDay #Flowers #ValentinesDayFlowers #Bouquet #Flower #SlowFlowers #Sustainable #SingleUsePlastic #FloralFoam #NoFoam #Love #PlasticPollution #NoFloralFoam #FlowerPower

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/are-you-giving-flowers-with-a-side-of-plastic/