this story of birds ingesting #OceanPlastics does not sit well with my morning’s oatmeal
All we need is for one western government to implement an #EndOfPlasticBottlesDeadline #December2027 #Auspol
no, we can’t ban all plastics completely. there is a whole hip-bone-connected-to-the-kneebone tangle of economic relationships at play — for example plastics are used to store silage effectively and without them we would be losing disproportionate quantities of stock-feed and in turn agri output would be affected carbon footprint blah blah blah… and there is a whole baby industry thing about recycling these we should be supporting, and so on and so on and scooby dooby dooby…
but for the love of all that lives and breathes on this planet we do not need to transport food and drinks in plastic bottles. Coca Cola revealed in 2019 it was making 200,000 bottles a minute. That’s three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or more than — or only —one fifth of the world’s plastic bottle output.
who does this benefit? It makes transport cheaper and handling easier (now increasingly automated) — benefitting billion dollar conglomerates. coke could successfully make the change to glass because the demand for their drink is inelastic.
companies are mostly obliged to do two things: make a profit and observe the laws of countries where they operate. one good stiff law in australia demanding change would eventually affect the mindset of the general public…. etc
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/birds-crunch-full-plastic-losing-war-waste/105221266
