But plastic isn’t always bad.
Looking at the consumer side, there are ways of cutting back on plastic.
Now it’s plastic, plastic, plastic: everywhere.
Before: One plastic bag full of other plastic bags, under my sink.
Several cities have banned the use of plastic straws and single-use plastic bags.
The American Board of Plastic Surgery, which certifies plastic surgeons in the United States, was founded in 1937.
Switching from the Classic packaging to Native Plastic Free will help reduce plastic waste by about 169 tons each year.
The sisters’ initial goal was to collect 100,000 pieces of single-use plastic – one for every sea mammal killed by plastic waste each year.
Slowly, more plastic is being recycled - which is great - but it can only be recycled so many times, so it is even better not to use plastic in the first place.
Every single ingredient is packed in its own plastic bag or box, and then packed in a larger plastic bag along with everything you need for that particular dish.
Even multi-element plastic lenses have been manufactured for low-cost cameras, the negative (concave) elements being made of a high-dispersion plastic such as styrene.
Trying to go plastic-free for my beauty products has been a huge challenge – outside of organic brands, very few have a focus on reducing plastic waste in their packaging.
Commitments to tackle plastic waste have seemingly been eased or put on hold: the UK delayed its ban on plastic straws and many US states have delayed or reversed bans on plastic bags.
Going completely plastic free was quite challenging, as there are just so many everyday essentials that are packaged in plastic, and for some of these items, it was difficult to find plastic-free alternatives.
The Cadbury owner Mondelez, meanwhile, has scrapped plastic trays from its entire range of adult chocolate selection boxes in the UK, in a swap it said would remove 1.1m plastic trays – equivalent to 33 tonnes less plastic used this Christmas.
The demand for single-use plastic-based products like takeout containers has skyrocketed throughout the coronavirus pandemic, but as this plastic use rises, so have sales for companies focused on low waste and the elimination of unnecessary plastic use.
Meanwhile, anti-plastic campaign group A Plastic Planet, in association with sustainable packaging companies Reelbrands and Transcend Packaging, launched the first plastic-free visors for frontline workers and medical staff; made from wood pulp and paper board, they are both recyclable and compostable.
Decaying plastic bags hanging from the branches of mangroves like dripping flesh; slicks of plastic water bottles and food containers waiting ashore for the liberation of the next rising tide; the misnamed “disposable” plastic and styrofoam drinking cups; and other plastic paraphernalia in various stages of disintegration.
• the phasing out of paint containing plastic; • the establishment of a “traffic light” guide to warn which paints contain plastic to dissuade DIY consumers from buying them; • the creation of a template house made without plastic; • the end of the use of plastic wrapping for building materials such as bricks and cladding.
The worse culprits are single-use plastic and plastic packaging: coffee cups (10,000 chucked every two minutes, just in the UK), straws (Americans use 500m every day), yoghurt cartons, cocktail stirrers, plastic razors, microbeads, and Tetra Pak cartons (because they’re made of several ingredients that are difficult to separate: card, aluminium, plastic coating) and coffee pods.
plastic
noun substance
- generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives
adj all
- capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)
Example: plastic substances such as wax or clay
adj all
- capable of being influenced or formed
Example: the plastic minds of children
noun possession
- a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has sufficient means of payment and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered
Example: do you take plastic?
adj all
- forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
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The worse culprits are single-use plastic and plastic packaging coffee cups 10000 chucked every two minutes just in the UK straws Americans use 500m every day yoghurt cartons cocktail stirrers plastic razors microbeads and Tetra Pak cartons because theyre made of several ingredients that are difficult to separate card aluminium plastic coating and coffee pods