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Originally Posted by macafee2
I have just been watching the BBC programme War On Plastic.
Really scary stuff. There are many pollutants around, some we know about, some we (I) don't.
Washing clothes often releases small amounts of plastic from our clothes.
Wet wipes, use them? They are 80+% plastic, I never knew.
I'm not sure where the fault lies, manufacturers, retails or us the consumer. All of the above perhaps but who can make the greatest change and who has the greatest influence to force change?
With so many consumers but so few retailers, they probably have the greatest influence. If the major retailers got together gave manufacturers due warning that they were going to stop selling a product due to the amount of plastic in the product perhaps a change could be forced. With so many consumers there are too many that would not stop buying a product I don't feel it would have such a impact.
Perhaps the manufacturer that is first to go Green could steal the advantage from the others.
Whilst I may get ridiculed for this I am going to ask you to see what you can do to reduce the amount of plastic you buy.
Me, I'm going to chat to the wife about our shopping to see what we can do.
please try not to be negative should you comment.
macafee2
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Together with sugar, plastics represent one of the most dangerous problem faced by humanity, and potentially one of the many nails in coffin of the blue planet, personally I believe this is the cause of the exponential rise in dementia, as minute plastic particles enter the circulation are small enough to pass through the blood brain barrier and over decades affect adversely the brain circulation leading to the vascular dementias.
It is now too late to do much about it plastics are everywhere, we are regrettably in the do dah and swimming in it up to our necks.